Led by artist Dr. Paula Sengupta, this workshop will invite participants to create miniature stamps of their favourite flowers on postcards that they will exchange with other workshop participants as the beginning of new friendships.

Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic, curator, and art writer. She is Professor at the Department of Graphics-Printmaking at the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, and Secretary of the artist’s initiative, Khoj Kolkata. She is author of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking published by the Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2012 and Foreign & Indigenous Influences in Indian Printmaking published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany in 2013. Trained as a printmaker, Paula’s repertoire as an artist includes broadsheets, artist’s books, objects, installation, and community art projects. She works across mediums that include printmaking, textiles and embroidery, papermaking, and much else. She is widely exhibited in India and abroad.

The reimagined Workshop Space at India Art Fair will hold a series of workshops titled ‘Rediscovery’ curated by an art education organisation LAND (Learning through Arts, Narrative and Discourse). They will be held in Hindi and English, with a select number in Sign Language, and will be open to the public with one-on-one engagement through experience sheets and a 3-day art pedagogy program for educators around India.

To register for the workshop, please write to [email protected]