"To see everybody engrossed in what they're doing, it's just quite uplifting, really."
That's the word from a New Zealand education official who attended a weekend art school in Invercargill, where students learned from 11 visual arts tutors, the Otago Daily Times reports.
"It was cool to bring people together in learning to create different things and explore new avenues of art," says a tutor.
The Southland Art School on King's Birthday Weekend was the brainchild of Southland Education manager Lesley du Mez, who attended the event after seeing a huge mural of a cat on her own building.
"Everybody loves the cat carving on our building, which is actually my cat Horace," she says. Read the Entire Article
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Rivaayat is an initiative by Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi to revive various dying art form and solve innumerable problems faced by the artisans. Rivaayat began with reviving a 20,000-year-old art form of pottery that is a means of survival for 600 families residing in Uttam Nagar, Delhi.