College of Art, Delhi - Overview

Overview

The college offers courses both at graduate and postgraduate levels; Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is an undergraduate course with 4 years duration in disciplines like Applied Art, Art History, Painting, Print Making, Sculpture and Visual Communication. Postgraduate course, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) which is two year in duration is also in the same disciplines (except Art History).

Art Education stalwarts such as Mr. Ramendranath Chakravarty, Padma Bhushan and Kala Samraat Prof.B.C.Sanyal, Prof.Biswanath Mukherjee, Prof.O.P.Sharma, have since its inception, headed and nurtured this prestigious institution. The College has also had the good fortune to associate, over the years, with educationists and eminent artists such as Mr. Sailoz Mukherjee, Prof. K.S.Kulkarni, Mr. G.R.Santosh, Mr. Bimal Das Gupta, Mr. Dhanraj Bhagat, Ms. Jaya Appaswamy, Prof. Dinkar Kowshik, Mr. Somnath Hore, Mr. Biren De, Padma Vibhushan Dr. Satish Gujral, Mr. Amarnath Sehgal, Prof. P.D.Abhayankar, Prof. P.N.Mago, Prof. S.S.Vohra, Prof. N.C.Sen Gupta, Mr. Narendra Srivastav, Mr. Rajesh Mehra, Ms Anupam Sud, Mr. K.L.Rangeen, Prof. Jagmohan Chopra, Prof. Paramjeet Singh. And, to mention a few names from the so vast an Alumni such as Mr. Manjit Bawa, Mr. Rameshwar Broota, Mr. Sidharth Sen, Mr. Niloy Sen, Mr. Pradip Sircar, Mr. E.J.Enas, Mr. Neeraj Goswami, Mr. Subha Ghosh. Besides, the present Faculty also includes from the Alumni such members as Mr. Kanwar Singh Pawar, Mr. Rabi Shankar Dey, Dr. B.S.Chauhan, Ms. Sangeeta Kaushik, Mr. Manoj Kumar, Mr. Pardeep Kumar, Mr. R.K.Panwar, Ms. Archana Sharma and Mr. Mohan Singh. The Annual Art Exhibition of the college, put by students is held every year during the month of march. it was the 58th version of the exhibition (Ab Tak 58)

Hindustan Times and Times of India always cover these exhibitions.

In 2008, the college added new buildings and an auditorium, designed by architect as-well-as an eminent artist Satish Gujral to its campus

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