Art Mentor

Art Mentor

Art mentorships grew from my experience teaching at the Master of Visual Arts program at the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore. I saw many of my students struggling to continue their art practices after graduation. I started searching for opportunities for emerging Pakistani artists and sharing them with recent graduates. This became the basis for creating an Instagram page to help organise artist calls and make them more accessible. 

In addition to this, I began offering individual mentorships and group workshops to provide guidance with writing artist statements, project proposals and CVs. I have worked with artists as they write for grants, residencies, scholarships and MFA applications. Artists have applied for and received grants through the British Council, Goethe and the Toronto Arts Council, and have been accepted to prestigious programs, including the Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Mittal Institute and VASL’s annual artist residency. MFA candidates have been accepted at the Yale School of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Slade School of Fine Art, the Royal Academy of Arts and Goldsmiths at the University of London.

I continue to teach Research Methodologies, a graduate thesis writing seminar, at the NCA. I also teach a professional development course online for fourth year undergraduate students at the University of Karachi.