Educatonal and Creative Art Workshops --- Lindsay Hebberd

Lindsay Hebberd's Art Workshops are for children and young adults of all races, religions, and environments, encouraging them to learn about a specific country and express what they have learned or like through an interactive art experience. Since 1999 Lindsay has conducted Art Workshops in public, private and special education schools, in art galleries, and with various organizations in several countries, including Jordan, hosted by the Royal Family. Thousands of students have been introduced to her books and touring photographic exhibitions and many have benefited from her extensive travel experiences and insight into various peoples and cultural expressions around-the-world. The Art Gallery features art by a diverse demographic of young people, all of whom were motivated by Lindsay's work.

The Art Workshops have proved especially inspirational for disabled and disadvantaged children. It allows them to express themselves in a fun and creative way and share what they have learned, like or feel about a particular person, subject or place. For a few participants, the Art Workshop experience has revealed special artistic talent and has allowed these artists an opportunity to develop and fine-tune their skills, and even pursue a career through art. For years Lindsay has been working closely with and is sponsoring two uniquely gifted hearing-impaired brothers from Orissa, India: Sriharsha and Siddhartha Sankar Sukla. By August 2001 Lindsay helped organize an exhibition at the prestigious India International Centre (IIC) Annexe in New Delhi, India, featuring 21 Sukla interpretive paintings of subjects from her India and Indonesia books. At that time she encouraged the Sukla Brothers to work in the medium of paper collage. Thus began an artistic collaboration which has resulted in her commissioning a series of collages of distinctive portraits from numerous cultures she has photographed around the world. The brothers create individual and collaborative art and have won numerous awards and international recognition for their collages. Dozens of one-of-a-kind collages now grace the walls of private collectors. Cultural Portraits Productions, Inc. intends to organize an exhibition featuring a variety of Sukla collages inspired by Lindsay's photographs. Sukla collage displays will also accompany the India and Indonesia photographic exhibition tours. All of the images featured on this Art Gallery Home Page are the Sukla Brothers' unique and distinctive "photorealism" paper collages, and more of their intricate work is included in the Art Galleries. N. Ramakrishnan, another talented physically challenged artist from Mumbai, India--who paints with his foot--has also created fantastic watercolor paintings.

The work of these and other artists is showcased in the Art Galleries. Each artist's nationality, age, school/organization/affiliation, the art medium, and in some cases the artist's own description of his or her personal experience or expression, accompanies their artwork and the photograph that inspired it.

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