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works of our students to a great extent. It’s
a pleasure that each and every passing
out student is taking tremendous effort to
explore their chosen medium in depth and
to showcase their honed skills before the
general public. In a way, the Degree show
of Government College of Fine Arts Thrissur
is a much sought after event which attracts
people from various walks of life. For the
Prof. PK Manoj same reason it demands a responsible and
Principal meaningful interaction with the onlookers.
Though there are earnest attempts to
strengthen its good will, openness and mutual
A vital component of the contemporary culture respect, we also understand that it’s essential
is its liberated people; here and elsewhere to facilitate our students to re-imagine the
in the world. As a means to establish a methods, processes, and various meanings
culturally valid artistic society, we need of artmaking according to newer art and
people engaged in various creative pursuits. design practices.
‘Freedom’, ‘liberty’ and a shared ambiance I would like to express my deepest gratitude
would be the ideal entities here. Prestigious to Prof. M.Lekha, our former Principal, who
art academies around the world are striving has been instrumental in the development
hard in this direction. These institutions are of the institution and making it visible
a great hope when degenerative ideologies and accountable to a larger community.
and humanity’s ruptures pop up every now The coming years will have a focus on
and then. Encouraging alternate narratives in strengthening the academic as well as
aesthetic consciousness is more important pedagogical foundation as suggested by
these days. the Department of Technical Education,
Government College of fine arts Thrissur in Government of Kerala in its ten year
the southernmost part of the sub continent, academic master plan.
established in the year 1910, has been As a culmination of four years’ learning/
grappled with various adversities from its unlearning process of a deep human centric
inception to the present times. But it has never empirical knowledge, Prologue 2018 will
been reluctant to be bold and determined in surely inscribe its distinctive mark. Let this
accommodating new thoughts and practices show be able to hand over a tradition from
in art education. The institution’s history is one generation of art students to the next. Let
also marked by significant struggles by the it become a privileged passage, a welcome
art student community. It was this urge to to the larger art community, and also a
think differently, and to be an individual with reminder of how a little idea can flourish
certain values that marked the existence of into a big vision. I once again congratulate
such a fraternity. These ethoses have created each and everyone who worked tirelessly to
a greater sense of respecting boundaries materialize this degree show and those who
between disciplines. A strong aesthetico - knowingly and unknowingly lend their hand
political consciousness thus reflects in the in this memorable venture.
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