The Chitpur Craft Collective
Hamdasti is a part of the Chitpur Craft Collective, a community of crafts people, artists, designers and entrepreneurs who are collectively building a new imagination of this historic locality
Connecting with craft
We work with local communities to reactivate the arts, crafts, cultures and community spaces of Chitpur through innovative projects and initiatives. |
Experiencing Chitpur in new ways
We facilitate events at Chitpur's bazaars, craft studios, heritage houses and public spaces that bring people together to share their stories, diverse traditions and practices and experience the familiar in unfamiliar ways. |
Jatra Japon by Arts forward
Evolution of the Chitpur Craft Collective
Since 2014, Hamdasti has been connecting artists to diverse communities at Chitpur through the Chitpur Local Fellowship. This has led to several collaborations with local crafts people and cultural spaces, including the development of artworks that reinterpreted traditional practices, new products, and craft based workshops.
In 2018, we went back to our local craft collaborators, as well as initiated conversations with artists, designers, researchers, local government officials who are invested in Chitpur's diverse cultural practices, to envision a collective action for activating community spaces, reimagining and sustaining diverse local traditions and connecting new audiences to this locality. The Chitpur Craft Collective was born out of these conversations and was launched with a 3 day Art Trail in the locality in February 2019.
Through our work with the Chitpur Craft Collective we are continuing to work with local craftspeople and residents to create spaces for interaction and dialogue between diverse communities and disparate social groups through the arts.
Since 2014, Hamdasti has been connecting artists to diverse communities at Chitpur through the Chitpur Local Fellowship. This has led to several collaborations with local crafts people and cultural spaces, including the development of artworks that reinterpreted traditional practices, new products, and craft based workshops.
In 2018, we went back to our local craft collaborators, as well as initiated conversations with artists, designers, researchers, local government officials who are invested in Chitpur's diverse cultural practices, to envision a collective action for activating community spaces, reimagining and sustaining diverse local traditions and connecting new audiences to this locality. The Chitpur Craft Collective was born out of these conversations and was launched with a 3 day Art Trail in the locality in February 2019.
Through our work with the Chitpur Craft Collective we are continuing to work with local craftspeople and residents to create spaces for interaction and dialogue between diverse communities and disparate social groups through the arts.
