The Mumbai Midtown Arts Collective (MMAC) is a group of seven spaces, including galleries, museums and auction houses who have come together to develop and nurture a community of arts lovers and cultural connoisseurs just like you.

For this edition of Art Sunday, we have collaborated with the esteemed Nehru Science Centre which is one of the gems situated in Worli. In light of Nehru Science Centre's 33rd Anniversary celebrations, all the Art Sunday workshops conducted will be based on the theme of Art & Science. After the Art Sunday workshops, you can also experience more than 500 hands-on and interactive science exhibits on energy, sound, kinematics, mechanics, transport, etc. at the Nehru Science Centre. We will be conducting the following workshops:

1. Out Of This World by Arzan Khambatta:

Go wild and bring to life things & friends from your own imagination. Team up with Arzan Khambatta and experiment with the weirdest forms using just paper and glue. 3D forms emulating extra terrestrial creatures and things found in space, shall be created using the most basic methods with emphasis on the fold.

Following principles are crucial to the workshop:

1) Create using your wildest imaginations and your fearless will to experiment.

2) See how simple it is to metamorphosize 2D surfaces into complex 3D forms.

3) To have heaps of fun. Great designs emerge when you’re enjoying yourself.

About the facilitator:

Arzan Khambatta calls himself an architect by profession and a sculptor by choice. Encouraged by his parents, he started sculpting the very next day after giving his 10th standard exams. He would scout the streets, garages, construction sites for scrap metal, collect the same and weld them into pieces of art he fondly christened “SCRAPTURES”.

A word that has become synonymous with Arzan. He got his first public response in 1993 when he opened SCRAPTURES to the public at the Jehangir Art gallery in sept 1993. Now Khambatta’s works are found in corporate houses, hotels, and private collections around the world and range from six inches to seventy feet in height, the most prominent ones being the dolphins at worli and the Ceat rhino at Juhu Circle. Currently 11 solo shows and over 100 group shows around the country and the globe, Arzan has embarked on a venture that is close to his heart, namely Photography.

A large part of his time he spends with imparting his craft to children from all strata of society. Be it the IB schools or the NGO children from slums and the streets of Bombay. He is passionate about his work and takes up challenges which defy his own creativity. His favourite saying is “The impossible just takes a little longer”.

2. Nature Printing by Amit Lodh & Santosh Kalbande:

What happens when nature and art come together? This Art Sunday at Nehru Science Center, Piramal Museum of Art welcomes families and individuals to come and explore nature in art by trying their hand at monoprinting, stencil drawing and collage making. The workshop which will be conducted by Amit Lodh, Manager at Piramal Art Residency and Santosh Kalbande, Artist and Piramal Art Residency alumnus, will have three activities:

1. Stencil drawing on canvas

2. Collage making using nature found around the premises

3. Monoprinting (impressions of leaf or flowers)

About the facilitators:

Amit Lodh is an artist based in Mumbai. He has an M.V.A in printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, Gujarat and a B.F.A in Painting from Khairagarh in Chhattisgarh. He has participated in many art camps and has exhibited internationally in Dubai and Korea as well as nationally in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Goa, Baroda, etc.

Santosh Kalbande is an artist who has an M.F.A. from Sir J.J. College of Fine Arts in Mumbai. He was invited by the Piramal Art Foundation to participate in the Kochi Muziris Biennale during which time he

created a series of works in his studio in Pepper House in Kochi. Santosh has been a part of path breaking artists’ residencies in Mumbai and participated in several important group shows. His works lie with several renowned artists’ collectors in Mumbai.