Rajeev Afternoon Art Camp

This posting continues a brief review of portions of our summer trip to Delhi, India. The following photos are of the Afternoon Art Camp for older students at Rajeev Camp, held two days after the AM Art Camp (yesterday's posting).


This is a view just outside the entry to Rajeev Camp School. This is the area where all the students in the School and Rajeev Art Camps live.












Students register for short sessions, usually about 6 weeks. Very few girls are registered - a general cultural value is that schooling is more important for boys than it is for girls - but as you can see, after the afternoon session was over, these girls were very interested in seeing what happened.

The older students organized themselves in these neat rows for the Art Camp. It made it much easier to conduct the sessions. Generally, we found the Indian people to be very resourceful and innovative, but creativity seems to come a little more difficultly.

As an object lesson, Janis used a Cambodian folk tale about a young boy who hoarded the stories told to him by his servant. As the boy grew to marriageable age, the stories confined in a bag plotted his harm. The servant intervened and saved his master from being harmed by the stories after the wedding ceremony. The man repented and began to share the stories. The students were then asked to paint a story of their life. The teacher, Sweetie, is helping this student share his story, along with Bobby, one of the ex-pat workers who helped start the school.

Romi, one of three teachers in Rajeev Camp School, is standing before a display of the student's artwork.


Next posting: some sites from this summer's trip.