Jewellery Making Workshop - April 20

Hello All,

After almost 7 hours of jewellery-making, laughing, talking, and eating, the jewellery making workshop turned out to be one of the best we've had so far :) Here are some of the moments from the workshop....

Vandana and Aparna, terribly busy.....

Richa Battles a mosquito as Krithika wipes her brow :D

Busy at work.....

Really busy.....

And a light Cornetto moment during the lunch break :)

Aparna is busy creating a stash

Divleen is almost completely in love with whites and reds.....

Shalini is all purple today :)

Divleen's beautiful turquoise set :)

We make everyone focus, focus and focus

Krithika's Roohafza is waiting as she works with her wires and beads

Work on, full flow

Vandana's Focus was contagious

Krithika with her "blues" ;)

Working with seed beads is no easy task

Divleen makes a neat stash!

Exuberant SHalini Bhatia's smile catches on!

Aparna ditches the offer to be dropped in favour of finishing her jewellery :)

All smiles Vandana :)

And all smiles Krithika

THe pretty pretty Manasa

And that's all of us :)

2014 Begins!

Hello All,

This is a year we eagerly looked forward to! We start afresh, in a new place..........Bangalore!

The year is off to a great start honestly! A workshop always brings such unparalleled joy to us! We got to create some fantabulous pieces (and orders are raining!)...............thank you every single one of you, who believed in us. Yes, we are human, yes we committed errors. But we are human! We will learn, improve and make sure your experience with us is a personal and pleasant one!

Here are some of the highlights of Art'zire for the year 2014, so far! :)

And some snippets from our maiden workshop in Bangalore :)

Thank you everyone and we hope for encouragement in Future too :)

Looking forward to be of service 

Art'zire

Art'zire at Pragati Foundation

Dear All,

When a chance meeting took place at Phoenix Mall with women being trained by Pragati Foundation, there was nothing concrete planned but Art'zire is proud of having developed their association with the Foundation  into a long-lasting association. Founder and Artist at Art'zire, Pritesh is spearheading this campaign of empowering the women living in slums of Chikhalwadi, Pune with  not just the expertise of jewellery making, but all the aspects of running a business.

The total package of training includes communicating with clients, packaging, information about raw material, colour theory education, exposure to better materials and more clients, designing, marketing etc. In a series of workshops held once every 15 days, Art'zire has helped these women with newer and more contemporary techniques of jewellery-making, including bead weaving, wire bending, handling crimping etc. The meteoric rise in the quality of jewellery being produced by these women and the confident smiles on their faces make the entire exercise an extreme pleasure for Art'zire.

Art'zire is now on its way to helping these women launch a full fledged enterprise, named Laavanya Jewellery, with well-defined roles assigned to various members of the Group. You shall soon see their creations on online selling portals that Art'zire is in talks with.

It gives us extreme joy to see the path these women have travelled and how far they have come in a short span of 3 months. We wish to thank Suchitra Iyer, for her whole-hearted support during the workshops and Pragati Foundation, for giving us this opportunity to create employment opportunities for under-privileged women.

We present here some snippets from the workshops held so far:

Very soon, we'll post updates related to "Laavanya Jewellery"...........

Regards - Pritesh