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NATIONAL PAINTERS' CAMP INAUGURATED AT MANSAR

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 2/27/2021 11:26:44 AM

Jammu, Feb 26 A three days National Painters Camp organized by Jammu & Kashmir Centre for Creative Arts (JKCCA), Jammu in collaboration with J&K Academy of Art, Culture & Languages, supported by J&K Tourism Department, Jammu, was inaugurated by Jang S. Verman, a well known senior artist of Jammu today at J&K Tourist Complex, Mansar Lake (Samba, J&K) Ten well known senior and young artists from different parts of the country are participating in this painters camp. The participating artists include K S Gill and Dharminder Sharma (Amritsar), Archana Choudhary (Madhubani), Deepika (Pathankot), Alphe Kumar (NewDelhi), Tariq Saifi (Surankot, Poonch), Jang S. Verman, Ashok Mehra, Anil Saraf and Deepa Soni (Jammu). According to Sh. O P Sharma, Director, JKCCA, J&K Centre for Creative Arts (JKCCA), Jammu was established way back in 1999 to promote, preserve and propagate the splendid art heritage of Jammu & Kashmir. He said that the NGO has so far organized hundreds of activities in and outside J&K, including organizing of eight International Art Exhibitions; Show at 1st International Kala Mela at New Delhi; National level Art Exhibitions at Jammu, Jaipur, Sunderbani, Amritsar, Goa, Lucknow and New Delhi, Women Painters Art Exhibition at Jammu, etc.; All India Painters’ Camps at Sunderbani, Jammu, Akhnoor, Mansar and Rajouri etc.