CROYDON

The artists have one function to affirm and glorify life. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. Without art the world would be vast empty void of uncreative, unimaginative and bland society. The fine art society of Indraprastha College for Women that is Croydon ensures that no piece of art goes unnoticed or unappreciated. Croydon endeavour to support and stimulate various forms of art work like Painting, Sketching, Calligraphy and many more, the society provides platform to college students to portray and display their talent and prove their creative vision to advance overall learning.

The word ‘Croydon’ was taken as an inspiration from a street in European country which was covered with paintings and sketches. Those sketches added colour and meaning to lives of the residents. Thus our college’s fine art society picked up this name as we put efforts to collectively include more colour and meaning to the life of the youth and stimulate their creative minds.

EVENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Poster making workshop by artist Anupam Roy, Bonsai workshop by Ms Aradhna Malik in collaboration with philosophy department and sculpture making workshop by Lodoe Gyaltsen were organised in the course of 1 year.

• The society in collaboration with Sweden India Nobel Memorial quiz organised poster making competition.

• Society members participated in Art fiesta-2015 organized by Vips and secured 1st position in two of the competitions.

• Society stall was put up on the occasion of festivals mela in which we sold handmade products like quilled earrings, diaries, bookmarks, fairy lights and many more products which were a total sold out. 

• The society members participated in Antaragini-2015, IIT Kanpur fest in which our members were among the top 5 in quilling, newspaper dress making and speed art. 

• The society made Indraprastha College miniature and also Pekham - a string art project which was exhibited during the NAAC visit. 

• Society members also participated in Mood Indigo - 2015, IIT- Bombay annual fest.

Competitions like hat making and plate painting were organized in Shruti 2016 - The Annual Fest of our college.

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

Also the society makes every event presentable and graceful by decorating the college premises on various events like college fresher party, festivals mela, Troika, College Annual Fest - Shruti, College day, Sports day and other major events.