With the financial support of the IARTS Textiles of India Grant, Foundation Chamar was able to run a series of workshops with students from the Government Leather Working School in January 2023. The workshops were geared toward co-learning about the art history of leatherwork, experimenting with un/touch/able materials such as rubber waste and envisioning new economic possibilities for Indian leather workers. Learn more about the projects undertaken by the students.

Foundation Chamar had the pleasure to working with curator Sudarshan Shetty on his project “Look Outside of This House” that was presented at the 2019 Serendipity Arts Festival. The projects looks at the social worlds behind artisanal objects. The exhibition was an opportunity for Foundation Chamar to engage wider publics in Goa about the tools and techniques used in leather work.

Foundation Chamar invited 66 designers to use discarded textile and fabric scraps from their studios to make tote bags for “The Reclaimed Tote” a fundraising project curated by Farah Siddiqui Khan.