Saturday Family Workshop

This workshop invites families to create a mixed media artwork inspired by the bold visual language of modern Indian artist Tyeb Mehta. Participants begin by introducing a strong diagonal line into their artwork, a mark that signals a moment of change, shift, or division. Working with a range of materials, families layer, tear, and assemble fragments across this divide. As pieces move from separation to connection, the surface slowly transforms into a unified and grounded composition. 

Designed as a shared creative experience for children and adults, the workshop offers a space for conversation, collaboration, and reflection through making. The final artwork becomes a tactile reminder of how change can be navigated by bringing pieces together and allowing them to find their place. The process encourages participants to think about balance, repair, and how different elements can coexist within a single frame.

Audience Takeaways:

·       Explore Tyeb Mehta’s use of the diagonal line through hands on art making

●      Learn how mixed materials can be layered to express change, balance, and connection

●      Experience collaborative art making as a shared family process

●      Develop visual thinking around composition, fragmentation, and unity

●      Take home a finished mixed media artwork created together as a family

While you’re here, we invite you to also explore KNMA’s ongoing centennial retrospective exhibition TYEB MEHTA Bearing Weight (with the lightness of being)