We are still in the phase of transition and hope to settle down in this year of the Pandemic. We were suppose to travel and paint in the summer but as whole world has come to a stand still, we are also stuck. While stuck at home, we thought to write about various experience we[…]
अमरीका और मेक्सिको की सीमा पार कर के हज़ारों लोग अमरीका में बिना दस्तावेज के आ रहे हैं. ये ख़बरें पिछले छह सात महीने से लगातार पढ़ रहा था. टीवी पर लोगों की कतारें भी दिख रही थीं लेकिन जैसा कि होता है घर के ड्राइंग रूम में बैठे हुए ये ख़बरें…..ख़बरों से अधिक की[…]
It is an experience of a lifetime. It may sound cliche but for an Indian artist to go to the US-Mexico border and do an art project with the undocumented immigrants is something not done everyday. Even after coming back home, we are overwhelmed by the whole experience of working with people who have come[…]
वो भी कुछ ऐसा ही सामान्य सा ही दिन था जब फेसबुक के हमारे इनबॉक्स में एक संदेश आया. संदेश था- ”अभी तुम्हारा पोस्ट देखा. मीनाक्षी का कपड़ों से आर्ट बनाने के बारे में. दिल्ली में हो तो गूंज आ जाओ. हमें बहुत खुशी होगी अगर तुम्हारे प्रोजेक्ट में कपड़ा दे पाए तो. क्या पता[…]
Abstract of the work- Mee believes that artist treat the mundane material in a way that separates them from other people using it. It is Mee’s passion to give new meaning, form and hence new identity to objects that have already lived a life. This is one reason why she often works with old, discarded[…]
We were in Bangalore for a week and looking for opportunities to paint with communities and a friend put us in touch with a small art-school named Art-Beat in Bangalore. We had a small telephonic chat and decided to meet Namratha who runs the art-beat school where kids of different ages come and learn to[…]
We have been painting with friends, acquaintances,strangers, families, schools and various communities but we had never got a chance to paint in any urban society. The moment we think about an urban set up, we think about big flats and societies where no one knows who lives in the other flat. No one has any[…]
We had no idea that Damodar Sarang was a government officer when he messaged me on the Facebook messenger inviting us to paint in a school in Datia, Madhya Pradesh. We have been planning to travel in Madhya Pradesh for many years and 2017 seemed to be apt for that. We had already covered Mumbai[…]
साल 2017 के कई ब्लॉग नहीं लिखे गए थे. लेकिन अब धीरे धीरे सारे ब्लॉग अपडेट कर रहे हैं. दिल्ली के द्वारका में एक बेसहारा, अनाथ बच्चों का केंद्र है जो सरकारी तो नहीं है लेकिन बहुत अच्छे से चलता है. सारे बच्चों का डाटा होता है और पुलिस के पास जो अनाथ बच्चे आते[…]
It has been a year now. When we look back at the experience of painting in two village schools of Punjab, Lot of things come into the mind. The year 2017 have been full of events in our life. all good ones and one of the reason we were not able to update the blogs[…]
Meenakshi and Jey began with a simple idea. How can we bring art and travel together? The founders of Artlogue talks to Narayana Menon K about their passion for the road and for art. Taking the idea of “painting the town red” literally, they went ahead and painted the town, although in vibrant colours of[…]
अमरीका आते समय जिस बात का दुख सबसे अधिक था उसमें एक बात यही थी कि आर्टोलॉग को कैसे आगे बढ़ाया जाएगा क्योंकि मीनाक्षी की पढ़ाई फिर से शुरु हो रही थी. हालांकि ये तय किया गया कि छुट्टियों में आर्टोलॉग का काम जारी रहेगा. इसी कारण पिछले साल हमने दतिया, फिरोज़पुर और अमरीका आने[…]
My first community art project in a new country and thats too with an autism centre was not easy but at the end everything ended perfectly as it happens in almost all the projects of artologue. Even before coming to United States, I had opted for community art project in my course in Saint Louis,[…]
As a student studying in an international school in Delhi, Mee faced tough times when her parents could not pay the school fees on time. Her father was adamant on providing us good English education inspite of his humble financial condition. Little did he know that it was equally tough for Mee to keep up[…]
It was a meeting which was rescheduled many times and a distance of around 40 kilometres took us more than a year to cover. Alka Kaushik, who came to know about Artologue through Facebook and Abhinav Singh invited us long back but since Alka is also a traveller, we couldn’t match a date to meet.[…]
New year began with two invites for Artologue and we were able to paint at both the places in the very first month of the year. First invite was from Jaipur where Artologue was invited to lecture about/ share our journey with colours in past 4 years. The programme was on ‘Save the Girl Child’[…]
Many people know us only as travelling couple but Meenakshi Jha (Meenakshi Jey) is also a visual artist who works in different mediums and with different materials. She started as a traditional Madhubani painter as a kid but she experimented a lot with that as well. slowly and steadily when she grew up and decided[…]
It was some random Facebook post which got us connected. Jey doesn’t even remember the post but he vividly remembers that Sriram said something which Jey could relate easily. Jey came home and told Meenakshi, ‘Do you know there is always a connection with people. you know that Jharkhand feeling.’ Meenakshi smiled and said, ‘seems[…]
We met Aayush during the exhibition of artologue named Art walle लोग. we came to know that he has been following our journey on Facebook. He promised to write about our Journey and he recently send this piece. Glad to share his write-up. Thanks Aayush. A long time ago, in a land where people believed[…]
Hello! Am I talking to Meenakshi? Yes, speaking. This is Dr. Shweta and I am calling from South Asian University. we met in India Habitat Centre during your exhibition last year. Okay, You are Professor in SAU. Right? Yes and I am calling you regarding the artologue project. This was a phone call which Meenakshi[…]