Delhi College Of Arts

If you are walking around Rajouri Garden, specifically near the Ring Road, you might miss us if you aren't looking. We are down in the basement at B-7/7. Delhi College Of Arts isn't some massive campus with marble floors. It’s a place where there is always a bit of paint on the floor and the smell of charcoal in the air. People come in from all over Delhi, mostly taking the Metro or fighting that Ring Road traffic. It’s a bit cramped sometimes when everyone is working on their canvases at once. We’ve got desks cluttered with brushes and half-finished projects leaning against the walls. It isn't always quiet here, especially when the staff is trying to organize the supplies or students are chatting about their sketches. It’s just a basement where people come to draw and paint. Sometimes the lights flicker, or we run out of a certain shade of blue, and someone has to run out to the local market to grab more. We don't do the whole corporate thing. It’s more about just showing up and doing the work. You get used to the noise from the street above. It is a bit messy, but that is how art goes, I guess. We stay open pretty late most days because that’s when people actually find the time to finish their pieces.