Pragati Art School has a couple of Brand New fun things to offer during the Pandemic.
1. Recorded sessions of previous workshops. "Pragati Art School" is for everyone who is interested in learning Indian Folk Art Paintings. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area - if you are in the area you have a wonderful opportunity to learn from an expert Pragati Sharma Artist who has done years of exte
nsive research in Indian arts and crafts and holds a Bachelors in Architecture and a Masters in Product Design from the prestigious “National Institute of Design’ Ahmedabad. She has exhibited her artworks all over the world and has been teaching art for over a decade. Indian art forms are her passion and so is teaching!!
“Pragati Art School” is also an attempt to keep alive many almost extinct folk and tribal art forms from the Indian subcontinent that has a very uniquely rich art heritage. The forms are diverse, loaded with history and religion. Each region's art forms reflect the influence of different empires. The vast cultural and ethnic diversity has created a huge variety of motifs, techniques, and styles. The depiction ranges from Gods and Goddesses, mythological themes, scenes from royal palaces, daily lives of tribals, love scenes, hunting scenes, court scenes, episodes from epics, geometrical designs, traditional symbols, and much more…
We use a variety of mediums like - Acrylic, Oil, Watercolors, Glass paints, Enamels, Fabric colors, clay, Gold foil, semi-precious stones, paper mache on a range of surfaces like Canvas, handmade papers, fabric, glass, ceramic, wood, rocks, etc…
Besides occasional workshops (fixed duration longer, sessions) I teach regular ongoing weekly classes. We are truly a treasure-house of learning, sharing, and bringing real awareness about our heritage through this art forms....no where in the world you will get an opportunity to learn them all under one roof!!
