ART EDUCATION

The memory of Dr. Svetoslav Roerich has been perpetuated solidly by setting up a Roerich Institute of Fine Arts imparting foundation courses to students. The Chitrakala Vidyalaya established in 1964 was duly upgraded as a College of Fine Arts, affiliated to Bangalore University. It is a landmark in the field of higher education in fine arts. The students graduate themselves in one of the specialisation like Painting, Sculpture, Applied Art, Graphic Art or Art History. The college with a student strength of 350 and 25 teachers is an ideal centre of creative pursuits.

More recently, the post-graduate course was bifurcated from College of Fine Arts by the Bangalore Univeristy. Now known as Chitrakala Institute of Advanced Studies (CIAS), it has 50 post-graduate students and seven registered for Doctoral studies, guided and trained by well qualified faculty members.