Blaise Joseph, Artist and Program Director, Art By Children, Kochi Binnale Foundation, Kochi

Blaise Joseph, Program Manager Art by Children, Kochi Biennale Foundation a  student of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) in Patna, inspired by the arts, joined the  famed Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. As a Jesuit scholastic and a student of  Art he used to engage with an indigenous community in Bihar, the Muzahars, who  were one of the most oppressed, illiterate and landless labourers in the region.  This led him to his real calling, to understand creativity and learning by taking up  art based engagements with children as well as adults of the less fortunate,  marginalised communities in society.