What We Do
Art, Craft & Skill
167 artisans. Twelve studios. One working campus.
What we do
Art, Craft & Skill is the largest thing we run. 167 artisans work with us — potters, weavers, dyers, painters, mask-makers, beekeepers and printers — across a set of studios on our Paralakhemundi campus and in the craft villages we buy from. The point is not preservation for its own sake. It is that a person who knows a craft should be able to live off it, so we teach, we produce, and we sell.
Services
What we offer
S. K. Mirmira Memorial Clay StudioWheel and hand-built pottery, terracotta, kiln firing.
Acharya Nandalal Bose Craft StudioDrawing, painting, printmaking, illustration.
Stockholm Papyrus Natural Tye Dye StudioNatural dye extraction, tie-dye, block and resist printing.
Gangadhar Meher Textile StudioHandloom, weaving, textile finishing.
Amarendra Ghatge Bee and Wax HouseApiary management, honey extraction, wax products.
Pandit Ravishankar Memorial Indigenous Music AshramaTraditional instrument practice and documentation.
Kamala Pujari Center for Sustainable AgricultureSeed keeping, organic practice, garden systems.
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Gram Swaraj KendraVillage self-reliance and enterprise training.
Printing Technology UnitA student-run printing business, 7,500+ pages produced.
Process
How we work
Skill to livelihood: identify craft and cluster, studio training, product development, market linkage, artisan income.
Network
Our network
167 artisans — potters, weavers, dyers, painters, mask-makers, beekeepers and printers — across a set of studios on our Paralakhemundi campus and in the craft villages we buy from.
Training
Training
Skill training runs continuously, in the studios and out of them. Our Mobile Training Centre — "Knowledge on Wheels" takes the classroom to villages that cannot come to us.
- 167 artisans in the network
- 135 students trained in pottery, taught by Appanna Garu, a village potter
- 480 rural youth targeted in culinary skills, with Kouzina Kitchen
- 2,000+ farmers reached by the Mobile Training Centre
- 15 artisan training programmes with the Handicraft Department
- 5 workshops on art & craft
- 5+ trainings on textile
- 7,500+ pages produced by the student printing business
Detail
Marketing & market linkage
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Product development
Turning a traditional technique into something that sells without hollowing it out.
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Our own retail
Craft lines including Magic Terrain Clay, sold through our cafés and campus outlets.
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Institutional supply
Conference gifts, mementoes, corporate and event orders, produced to spec at volume.
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Exhibitions & fairs
Stall design, display, and direct artisan participation.
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Artisans
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Units on campus
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Trained in pottery
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Farmers reached
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