INTERVIEW
Arts. I had made it the ultimate goal of my life, to give respectful image to this field in our society.
Q. How many students are currently enrolled in your department?
Ans. At present, we have more than 1500 students in our department, all divided into six different departments as Visual Arts Department, Textile Department, Interior Designing, Graphic Designing and Research Centre. At Jhang Campus we have Ancient Craft and Textile Department – all are doing a magnificent job.
Q. Usually in educational system, there is a gap between students and teachers, how do you overcome these communication gaps?
Ans. I consider“ Arts” as a different flavored subject than others, because the bonding in between students and teachers in this field has to be superb. Until and unless, there is no strong spring between teachers and students, the real concept of“ Art” cannot flourish.
Art is the name of expression and feeling that is to be transmitted to others through brushes, colors, textiles and other creative mediums.
Q. What kind of change do you observe with time in this field and what kind of training is lacking in teachers of this field?
Ans. As“ Arts” is not a static field, there is certain changing in this field but unfortunately these changing are awful. The teachers lack training to accept a leadership. The race to attain power had ruined the whole system and had crushed the minds of teachers. In simple words the juniors lack connectivity with their superiors.
Q. What quality do you wish to see in your students?
Ans. I want my students to be devoted, passionate and hardworking. Students are somehow lacking the element of emotional attachment with their courses. They have less sense of feeling the Art and the only solution for this is the realization of inspiration from the grass-route level to the top-notches.
Q. What are your views about“ Museum Studies”?
Ans. I have introduced this course in my department and with blessings of Allah it had been a good move. I teach Museum Studies and during the course I provoke my students to visit museum and get them emotionally involved with our history and culture.
Q. What would be your massage for students of this field and future artists?
Ans. The artist of future needs to have a grip over drawing as it is the basic element of this field. Moreover, the young generation should know the sensitivity and dedicative role of Fine Arts in a high culture oriented society like Pakistan, in which hard and tough issues can be easily presented and highlighted from the platform of Fine Arts.
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