Alipore Print Studio

Alipore Print Studio

Step into a world of symbols at Alipore Museum through a block (stamp) making session led by Chaiti Nath (DAG Museums Team). Translate myth and motif into print swatches inspired by DAG’s exhibition: ‘The Babu and The Bazaar: Art from 19th and 20th Century Bengal’, which will be introduced through a walkthrough by Sumona Chakravarti (VP, DAG Museums). Work like a guild in a traditional print studio— foraging, carving, and creating individual prints into a collective body of work.

Sumona Chakravarty heads DAG’s Museums Programme. Sumona is a graduate of the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, India with a Masters’ degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA. Chakravarty is the founder of Hamdasti, a Kolkata-based arts platform for socially engaged arts practices. Her work is participatory in nature, engaging diverse communities to collaboratively intervene in public spaces. She is the recipient of grants and commissions from India Foundation for the Arts, Inlakhs Shivdasani Foundation and Khoj. She has been a Fellow in the ArtThink South Asia Program at Khoj, Delhi and at the Global Cultural Leaders Program, hosted by the European Union. At DAG she leads arts engagement programmes and education initiatives that make DAG’s collection of Indian art accessible to a wider audience and is working on the development of a museum by DAG at the historic home of the artist Jamini Roy.

Chaiti Nath, a cultural practitioner, has a background in Design and Printmaking, pursued her postgraduate studies at the Department of History of Art, Kala Bhavana (Visva Bharati, Santiniketan) and has attended Summer School: South Asia on the Move at Villainies University, Lithuania. Her M.F.A. dissertation explored Visuality vis-a-vis Counter-Visuality, reflecting on the agit-props, urban myths, print propaganda, typography, and wayside vernacular artefacts of Indian cities. Her curatorial undertakings include being a Senior Programme Executive, Arts Engagement in DAG’s Museum Programme In the past she has been associated with Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Emami Art, and Jaladarsha Collective.