Amazing drawings on the walls in Indian school

Every year in a remote village Suatu, in one of the poorest States of India Bihar, Public School Niranjana organizes the Wall Art festival. Artists from India and Japan, spend three weeks in the village, using the walls of the school building as canvas. In the process, the artists interact with children and conduct seminars for them. The initiative is carried out through cultural and art exchange to help to solve different problems characteristic of the villages in India, including issues of poverty, education and employment.



It all started in 2006 when fifty students from Tokyo Gakugei University donated money to non-governmental organizations in India to build a new school building of Niranjana in Bihar. The school was built and became the first educational institution in the region. Funded by random overseas donations, the school appeared thanks to the hard work of teachers and volunteers, and by 2010, was attended by some 400 students, from kindergarten to 7th grade.



Knowing how important support, the school administration decided to hold an art festival that will help to tell about the problems of rural people and children in Bihar. It was proposed to use the school's white walls as a canvas.

One of the artists who participated in the festival three years in a row was Yusuke Asai. Inspired by traditional Indian wall paintings, acai coated all the walls and ceiling of the class of clay. Working with children, he collected soils from various locations in the village and mixed them with water, using as paint. Acai also asked the children to leave their handprint on the wall as a reminder for the future.





After the festival was over, ASI addressed the children again. This time, to help wash away the paintings from the dirt, returning the material back to the soil. Through this process ASI showed children the value of life as a continuous cycle.





Source: lifeglobe.net/