We spent the first hour of our time at the gallery doing a self-guided tour of the 'Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India' exhibit. This exhibit features the work of twenty-four contemporary artists from four major indigenous artistic traditions in India: the Gond and Warli communities of Central India, the Mithila region of Bihar, and the narrative scroll painters of West Bengal. Surrey Art Gallery is the only stop in Canada. It was exciting to view such a wide variety of art and think about the different materials that were used to create each piece.
April led us through our clay workshop where we had a chance to create some art of our own - a mask! The masks are currently air drying at school, and will later be fired in the kiln and turned into green ware. The last step will be to decorate them. A huge thank you to our parents for helping us out today, and to April for teaching us how to create with clay!
