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Explore your creativity, discover a passion!
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso.
PURPOSE & CAUSE
Folklore Art is an effort to revive and popularize Indian tribal and folk art forms by connecting people to visual folk art from the comfort of their homes at their convenient times. We create digital content and e-learning modules to facilitate learning of various art forms as a hobby by participant of any age group. Our workshops will help you relax your mind and refresh your soul. Our mission is to provide a platform, where participants can learn, ignite their passion and develop their personal style by learning new and age old techniques and methods.
Folklore Arts entire proceeds for first 3 months was donated towards the feeding the less fortunate ones as the pandemic spread in India in 2020.
Our Founder
RICHA MAURYA
Born in Jharkhand, India her passion for art started early in life, as she always found art meditative and stress relieving. She has learnt many Indian folk art forms Rajasthani Phad art, Gond art, Pichwai, Pattachitra, Madhubani to name a few and also enjoys urban sketching and water color florals. She is a post graduate in Computers Application with a certification in 'Small industries Management Program' from IIT, Delhi, and has served in the IT industry over 10 years.
In February 2020, as the pandemic pushed most people inside their homes, she turned to arts to find some solace, and occupy herself along with her two children constructively. With a background of computer science and a passion in art, she started her creative endeavor Folklore Arts. In the process of creating and learning art , she got to know many folk artist of India and learned many more regional art forms. Folklore Arts is her effort towards promoting folk art forms by offering art lessons online, and helping people connect to art for solace in times of stress. At times when she neither on a laptop, nor with her art supplies, she loves to workout and cook with her kids.