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When Amar C. Bakshi ’06 founded an arts program for disadvantaged children in northern India last year, he had to organize most of the logistics for the program, which sent 11 Harvard students to the country, himself...
...group works within the structure of the University administration to bring art to developing countries. Using institutional grants, one Leverite has brought public art to Mussorie, India: Amar C. Bakshi ’05 is the founder and leader of Aina Arts, an organization devoted to the promotion of art in developing countries. “We see art not as a luxury, but as a necessity, and seek to provide its benefits in places where it is not encouraged,” said Bakshi...
...looked for the use of arts in religious practices, in daily practices, in special ceremonies and celebrations striving to see art in its broadest conception.” Then the group teaches the children to see the same beauty and art that they have observed. According to Bakshi, “Our goal was never to be a technical school, but rather a place in which the children could address dilemmas within their culture using the tools arts gives them...
...role of public art themselves. “We seek to show students here [at Harvard] the ways in which art-making takes place outside the gallery walls of New York or show-rooms in London, in the lives of millions of people,” commented Bakshi, who is expanding the organization’s frontiers from Mussoorie to an AIDS orphanage in Zimbabwe and eventually locations in Latin America...
...public works of art in general, Bakshi said, “I think all art must be public and socially engaged. The arts are primarily a means of communication between individuals and communities, and I feel that for years art has been systematically divorced from daily life in an effort to enshrine its products and ignore the essence of its process...