UK India Dosti: Indian Folk Art Festival - Madhubani Art

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Glasgow Women's Library have teamed up with the UK India Dosti Folk Art Festival to offer a host of incredible women artists from rural India a platform to share their talents!

About UK India Dosti: Indian Folk Art Festival - Madhubani Art

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To celebrate South Asian heritage month and 75 years of India’s independence (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’) we have teamed up with the UK India Dosti Folk Art Festival to offer a host of incredible women artists from rural India a platform to share their talents and pass on practical knowledge of different art forms.

In the rural interior of India, Mithilanchal, northern Bihar, women from traditional communities practice an art form that not only captures the legends and mythology of ancient culture, but also reflects the mixing of art and life. The art of Mithila is characterised by richly coloured freehand figures, with deliberately out of scale curves and miniaturisations that depict scenes from mythology and their reflection in everyday life. Today Madhubani art is recognised the world over, not just for its forms and colours, but also for the deeply meaningful stories it portrays. We’re proud to hold several Madhubani paintings in our collection and very excited to host artist Ritu Kumari, a skilled practitioner, to teach us more!

UK India Dosti is a cultural exchange festival between the UK and India scheduled to be held from 18 July 2022 to 8 March 2023 inspired by the UK’s South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM), India’s ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, and the incredible traditional women artists of India who have shown remarkable resilience in continuing the heritage tradition despite the devastating effects of Pandemic.

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