Devrai Art Village and Women's Empowerment

In a mutually enriching activity, artists like Vaishnavi from Sir JJ School of Arts and Meenal a local artist sit together with Ramali who is the wife of our iron Master craftsman from Chattisgarh and Reena and her sister Suman from Gadchiroli who has recently joined us...


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Rock Dhokra Laughing Buddha
Can be used as a book end too!

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This is how the tree emerged from the fire!

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Parts of the family tree being assembled. They have to be welded. The copper leaves and the family names too have to be put. Still lots of work remains . The tree needs to be installed in Mumbai on the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi on the 10th in Mumbai!
Work happening in a frenzy!

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The customized Family Tree Mural is finally cast. Now the cleaning , buffing and assembling will happen. The leaves in beaten copper are already ready.

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Today morning in the iron craft shed...

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The most difficult challenge is to get the 'treeness' of a tree in a metal sculpture! This Rock Dhokra Uruli ii's a testimony of that effort.

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Customised order. It is supposed to be a family!
Broken dreams! No hands to hug even?

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Our artisans' children...
Wishing the school exigencies did not wean them away from acquiring the skill sets of their parents! Pratima and Rohan who are Diyarilal and Ramali's kids, will they grow up and continue their traditional metalcraft?
So many of our traditional arts and crafts are vanishing because the new generation's success is measured by different standards which are completely alien to their cultural roots!

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