Visual Arts

placing the discourse and practices related to visual arts education firmly within its present context, especially that of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Manasi in her essay titled ‘The Potential of Visual Arts in Language Development’ discusses the intimate links between visual arts and learning, especially those related to languages; at the same time, she makes a case for the need to learn the visual arts independent of their links to learning the written word.

In this issue an interview with Umadevi L. N. – the Headmistress of GHPS, Thindlu, a Government School in Bengaluru – who is an award-winning teacher, and has been instrumental in shaping and implementing a visual arts program in her school that has had beneficial effects on the learning trajectories of the children in her school.

The ArtSparks Team shares perceptive quotes from across the world from practitioners and thinkers in the visual arts education space in a new section titled ‘Insights.’