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| Interactive Workshops with
Students: Visual History |
| Visual History Workshops form
a very important part of the SPARROW agenda. Every woman artist
has to work within a social and cultural context in which her
gender is a constant factor -- adding, deleting, enhancing and
reducing, all at one time, the quality of her learning process
and her work. SPARROW Visual History Workshops have been interested
in the way women create space for their expressions and the
way they retain that space, sometimes by manipulating a given
space, sometimes by creating a new space and sometimes by transforming
a given space to make way for different expressions. These workshops
were attempts to introduce people to experiences of various
artists and their visual work. SPARROW invited artists whose
life and careers provide us an opportunity to know how women
live and function as artists. The Visual History Workshops were
recorded on video. SPARROW also brought out a booklet after
each workshop in the form of a biographical note, based on the
proceedings of the workshop and on the video recordings done
at the residence and workplace of the artist. Following are
the artists who were guests at the visual history workshops
SPARROW held from 1997 to 1998. |
Pramila,
a film star of the early Hindi cinema.
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Kanaka
Murthy, a traditional sculptor.
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Damayanti
Joshi, the renowned Kathak dancer and teacher.
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Sushama
Deshpande is an actress who calls herself a theatre journalist.
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Maya Krishna
Rao is a Kathakali dancer and a theatre artiste.
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Neela Panch
is a painter who paints in the traditional Mysore style of
painting.
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