About
Our Vision
- To inspire a community of learners, enhancing creativity and imagination for learning, living and being.
Our Mission
- Facilitating educational courses and research in culture studies, performing and visual arts applying creative and critical pedagogy.
Our Story
Our Objective
Our Story
who we are
Visthar Academy of Culture and Contemporary Studies (VACCS) is part of the Visthar Academy, an offshoot of Visthar Trust.
VACCS has been envisioned as a centre for holistic education in the realm of art, culture, and contemporary studies. It is spread across Visthar’s green and serene campus which fosters a deep connection to the natural surroundings. It facilitates living-learning communities where each one’s creative energies are nurtured and where learning is a joy and passion.
At present, VACCS is offering a Bachelor of Visual Arts to all those who have a keen interest in this subject and have completed 10 + 2 grades. The academic year is scheduled to begin in August 2022.
Our Objective
What we aim to do
- Help learners to consolidate past experiences and knowledge.
- Introduce learners to different media and techniques and their use for creative and productive expression for common use;
- Provide opportunities for the development of awareness about folk arts, local specific arts and other cultural components leading to an appreciation of national heritage and local tradition
- Assist learners to use artistic and aesthetic sensibility in day-to-day life situations
- Enable learners to achieve balanced growth as social beings through project work
- Get acquainted with the life and work of the local artists/artistes;
- Use resourcefully locally available material to make different products (objects) with the help of the community
- Refine the sense of appreciation of the beauty of nature through the basic elements of art forms
Read about our team
We are a group of people who have been actively engaged in community based work for the last 15 years.