Date: Saturday, 12 September 2026
Time: 2:00 – 6:00 PM
Venue: Kolkata Centre for Creativity, 4th floor lobby
Recommended age: Anyone over 12 years of age
In her artistic practice, artist Ruma Choudhury has successfully extracted 34 different fibres from various natural sources to construct the material base for her organic paper works. Taking inspiration from her works at her upcoming solo at Emami Art, কাগজ কথা (Stories of Paper) is a workshop by Emami Art in collaboration with Kolkata Centre for Creativity that delves into how 2 such fibres can be transformed into sheets of handmade paper.
Beyond the papermaking process, participants of this hands-on workshop will learn about what influences Choudhury’s works and get introduced to handmade paper as a medium of environmental awareness and archive, where time, nature, and material come together. This event is a public-facing programme under Ruma Choudhury’s debut solo Elemental Encounters: Practice as Ecological Archive (8 August – 18 September 2026) at Emami Art.
Participants are required to carry hand towels of their own. All other materials will be provided.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Ruma Choudhury (b. 1990) holds a BFA and an MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Notable group exhibitions include Vichitra/विचित्र , Patna Museum, Patna, 2026; The World in a Single Nest: Following the Way of Tagore, GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow, Russia, 2026; Convergences: A Shared Ground, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2026; Propositions in Paper, Anant Art Gallery, Noida, 2025; Material as Metaphors, NGMA, Kolkata, 2025; and There are Tides in the Body, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2024; among others. She was selected for the Arthshila x Anant Foundation for the Arts Residency at Parivartan, Siwan, 2025 and received the JK Paper Award for the Arts: Propositions in Paper – Honourable Mention, 2025.
