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Rashtrapati Bhavan

HOSTED A GROUP OF

MADHUBANI ARTISTS

Madhubani art is taking a leap from traditional art forms of Raas, Kohbar, and Ashtadal and is
now making its unique identity in the country and the world through painting on contemporary
major events. The Madhubani art practitioners from Bihar and the Gond art practitioners from
Madhya Pradesh displayed their art in the ‘Artists in Residence programme-Kala Utsav’ for a
week at Rashtrapati Bhavan. President Droupadi Murmu witnessed the paintings made at the
Kala Utsav at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 26 May and met the artists and appreciated the creative
painting of important traditional art forms of India…
A
group of Madhubani and Gond Painting
artists displayed the traditional art forms
of India in their original form at this Kala
Utsav. This Kala Utsav at Rashtrapati Bhavan
provides a platform to those folk, tribal, and
traditional artists of India who have preserved
various forms of art for generations. Under the
Artist-in-Residence program, artists of Gond
painting from Madhya Pradesh and Madhu-
bani painting from Bihar stayed at Rashtrapati
Bhavan from 20 to 27 May 2025. The president met many artists
of Madhubani painting
THE GOND ARTISTS’ TEAM INCLUDED President Droupadi Murmu met Madhubani painting
DURGABAI VYAM AND SUBHASH VYAM artists Shanti Devi, Ambika Devi, Manisha Jha, Priti
The Gond artists team comprised of Durgabai Karna, Ranjan Paswan, Shanti Devi, Urmila Devi,
Vyam, Subhash Vyam, Nankusia Shyam, Ram Shravan Paswan, Kumari Nalinee Shah, and Moti
Singh Urveti, Dilip Shyam, Champakali, Heera- Karn. President Droupadi Murmu wished the artists
success for their future artistic endeavors.
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