Kannada Bharati, a non-profit organization that promotes the cultural heritage of Karnataka, conducted a free Madhubani art workshop for kids as part of an Independence Day celebration on August 13th.

Adithi Siva, Amrutha Arvind, Aarthi Sathyanarayanan, Manavi Shukla, and Jahnavi Shukla volunteered to help visitors make puzzle boards and bookmarks. Adult mentor, Vidhya Durai lead the event.

Arianna Sinha represented the school at the event held at Northcreek High School, Bothell, selling handcrafted earrings and displaying her paintings. Arianna ended up selling out all of her earrings and many people at the event stopped to look at the beautiful art.

All the proceeds from the stall went to Sankara Healthcare Foundation.

Artist Srinidhi Muralidharan presented her art at Crossroads Mall. The art show was held from May 4th to May 16th for all Bellevue School District students.

15 different schools participated, ranging from elementary to high school. Srinidhi exhibited her village scene painting and even featured her art on Bellevue School District’s official Instagram page! Parents, kids, and seniors - all enjoyed the art as a break from their shopping and eating activities, and it was a wonderful opportunity for young artists like Srinidhi to showcase their talent at a diverse platform like the Crossroad mall.

The fair was hosted by Youth4Us, which provided young student entrepreneurs an opportunity to exhibit their art and leadership skills. Over seventy percent of the inventory created by our artists Amrutha Venkatarama, Architha Venkataraman, Meenakshi Iyer, and Arianna Sinha was sold out, making the Madhubani booth one of the top successful tables.

Free art event for seniors and kids was conducted at a local neighborhood park in Bothell

Event Coordinator - Srujana Babu and Deepthi Sunder Rajan

Participating Artists -
Druthi
Sruthi
Shrita Palla
Shritha Kotapalle
Rithikka Souresh
Dhiya Souresh
Anugraha Ganesh
Anvi Babu
Anvika Bheemarasetty

On International Day at Redmond Middle School, artist Khushi Garg presented her intricate Madhubani paintings for an exhibition. The event was held on April 25th with many countries across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe sharing culture and unique traditions.

One of the Deepti Designs’ students, Abhay participated in an art and craft fair in his school, Kennydale Elementary in Renton. He received a chance to highlight the Madhubani skills he learned in class to create beautiful mini-Madhubani paintings to sell. He also used Warli art, an art form in which originated from Maharashtra, in India. They use 3 basic shapes in their artwork, a circle, triangle and square. Those 3 shapes represent distinct aspects of nature. Abhay got many people interested in Madhubani art with his wonderful pieces. 

Nina Khilnani, a student of North Creek High donated a Madhubani art-work create by her mom (reproduction of an artwork found online), for the North Creek Booster fundraiser.

Her mom, Ms. Charu Khilnani's is a student at Deepti Designs School of Art and is a very skillful and driven practitioner of the art-style.

Aditi Satrasala, one of Deepti Designs’ students, set up a fundraiser in Missouri with the help of her mom Ashwini, to help the American Kids Heart Association. They sold boxes which were Holi themed filled with Gujiya, a delicious sweet fried dumplings and Pinwheels, which are puffed potato pastries. Aditi used her Madhubani skills she learned in class, to decorate the boxers with colorful Madhubani borders. They sold the art-pieces to raise funds.

Over 45 IACS youth participated in creating the concept canvases for the Milan 2023 auction. The pieces were designed and laid out by our artists which were painted in groups by the IACS members. Artist volunteers Ananya Vaidyaraman, Aadya Bommineni, Srinidhi Kodemala, Srinidhi Muralidharan, Prisha Mundra and Sai Keerthana Ganta moderated the session.

For the IACS annual gala, Milan, the students of Deepti Designs created five concept canvases translating intangible topics such as Resilience, Self-Reflection, Vulnerability, Stepping up together and Community Rising on canvases.

Alumni artist Kavya Selvakumar, teaching artists Vrinda Rathi, Anushka Bains, Creative Voices coordinator Ananya Vaidyaraman and The Beacon editors, Harini Thiagarajan and Anishka Gogoi conducted the focus group study to brainstorm and generate ideas for the canvases.

They populated five idea sketches which would eventually be translated into professional grade paintings on canvases for auction.

An intergenerational workshop was arranged by Deepti Designs for the seniors and youth of IACS in their Redmond office. Teaching artist, Anushka Bains and artist-in-training, Nethra Mahesh supported the workshop with adult mentors, Deepthi Suner Rajan and Vidhya Durai, in the lead.

Youth Workshop for IAWW at the North Bellevue Community Center where over 40 youth participants created with colorful pots. The event was lead by teaching artist, Nikita Thakalath and was supported by adult mento, Mano and youth artist Hansika Senthil

The artist volunteers Anushka Bains and Nethra Mahesh lead the intergenerational workshop, in their Redmond office, where the seniors and youth participants finished their fish trivets.

An intergenerational workshop was arranged by Deepti Designs for the seniors and youth of IACS in their Redmond office. Teaching artist, Anushka Bains and artist-in-training, Nethra Mahesh supported the workshop with Deepti Agrawal in the lead.

The WBW volunteers along with Kannada Bharati put together a free art workshop to celebrate the 75th year of Independence of India. The event was attended by over 100 participants who made their own Indian Flag (in line with “Har Ghar Tiranga”, the flag campaign lead by the Govt. of India), tricolor bookmarks and bead bracelets.

The event was lead by the WBW board member, Deepthi Sunderrajan and artist volunteers at the event were -
Anugraha Ganesh
Sri Hansika
Khushi Garg
Shreaya Vinodkumar
Jhanvi Shukla
Manvi Shukla
Sanikka Kabbur
Satvik Kabbur
Mahathi

The sophomores of North Creek High, Amogh, Rakesh, Murlidhar, Suhanraj and Rohil put together a Children’s Business Fair for the community kids.

There were about 50 booths set up by little kids where they got a taste of entrepreneurship right from outlining the product, inventory management, packaging, marketing and finally sales.

We were happy to co-sponsor the event and support the endeavor by the community kids. The event was a roaring success with a heavy footfall.

Wind Beneath the Wings conducted its first non-profit event at Bothell Library on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Deepthi Ganesh and Vidhya Durai spearheaded the program with artist volunteers who helped seniors create wooden Madhubani coasters and bookmarks
Artist volunteers at the event were
Adithi Siva
Oviya Raja
Sanjitha Rishikesan
Satvik Kabbur
Sanika Kabbur
Aadhya Bommineni
Anvika Bheemarasetty
Anugraha Ganesh

Youth4us and its convenor, Gaurangi Gupta brought Acton Children's Business Fair to Redmond and provided an opportunity for children ages 7-15 to explore their passion, ideate, create a product of their interest, and launch their own business. Kids developed a brand, created a product or service, built a marketing strategy, and opened a pop-up store for customers to get hands-on experience the one-day physical marketplace.

Deepti Designs were the sponsors and Ms. Deepti Agrawal, our founder was invited as the Chief Guest and the Keynote Speaker at the event.

The sophomores of North Creek High, Amogh, Rakesh, Murlidhar, Suhanraj and Rohil put together a Children’s Business Fair for the community kids.

There were about 25 booths set up by little kids where they got a taste of entrepreneurship right from outlining the product, inventory management, packaging, marketing and finally sales.

We were happy to co-sponsor the event and support the endeavor by the community kids. The event was a roaring success with a heavy footfall.

In the words of Aashika -

“I have always had a special place in my heart for seniors – especially the ones who stay away from their families. The pandemic exacerbated the situation for seniors who were living in retirement homes. Just as a way of spreading some cheer and joy to seniors, I wrote letters to many of them containing my art work. I also conducted online art lessons to a group of seniors at a local retirement home.

I was elated to see their enthusiasm not only in learning a new form of art, but their incredible interest and skill as well. They produced beautiful pieces of art and I was extremely happy to see them.”

What an incredible experience it was to have 13 of our students teach 45 kids online. It was for a cultural non-profit organization, Balvihar based in Seattle.

There was an unparalleled display of discipline and determination and the ease with which the 2-hour session went on was commendable. Our student volunteers were the heros of the day... To learn art is one thing but to be able to efficiently teach others, is a whole different ball-game which they have clearly learnt effortlessly.

Vrinda
Anushka
Shritha
Sanjitha
Neha
Khushi
Anvika
Inchara
Anishka
Shreya
Prisha
Ananya
Nikita

The workshop, lead by Anandhi Srinivasan, a corporate professional and a mythology enthusiast was organized to provide participants an insight into the story of the great epic, Ramayana.

There were visual narrations, discussions, games, quizzes, activities related to Ramayana which helped kids along with their families know the story in detail and relate to the numerous characters. They drew some great learnings and derived very insightful conclusions!

The funds raised were donated to provide masks to young adults, women and families in shelters and to hospitals and schools through a women-run non-profit Kinder Konnection. 

It is so heart-warming to see how our little artists have been using their art to address real-world problems.

Sanjita Rishikesan, an 11th grader created these masterpieces to point out the atrocities mankind is inflicting on animals!

Art kits were supplies to a senior center in Seattle. The seniors there were keen on trying out the #artwithheart projects but didn't have supplies.
FA3 generously co-sponsored the supplies and we sorted them into 6 reusable kits.

We are glad to be able to lend a hand at this trying time.

The young students of Deepti Designs School of Art came together to give back to the global community by creating digital ART TUTORIALS for free circulation over the internet as the Corona Virus Pandemic struck the world.

They put up a variety of projects to cater to a wide range of age-group. These are full-length detailed tutorials which are well shot and explained at length for the benefit of any and every art enthusiast. A lot of love poured in from all parts of the world where people viewed the videos and created their own masterpieces.

The videos are still available are www.deeptidesigns.com/artwithheart