'Diversity & Social Harmony' art show on Nov 8.

ISLAMABAD -- 'Diversity and Social Harmony', a group show of paintings by various artists featuring traditional and contemporary arts will be opened at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on November 8.

The exhibition includes an exquisite collection of artworks, including paintings and ceramics as an attraction of Pakistani art. The event is a collaboration between Nomad Gallery and PNCA and will be followed by seminars, Daastangoi, performance art, and art workshops. The exhibition will continue till 16 November.

S. Najam Kazmi, Samina A. Akhtar, Zafar Ali, Khurram Abbas, Hassan Sheikh, Areej Nasir, Emaan, Tauqeer Hilbi, Alefiya, Rakshanda Atawar, Hassnain Awais, Nabahat Lotia, Jamil Hussain and Kuzhad are among the participating artists.

According to Nageen Hyat, Curator of the show and Director of Nomad Gallery, Pakistani art has a long tradition and history. It consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, calligraphy, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically, it is a part of Indian subcontinent art, including what is now Pakistan. Ceramics and glazed pottery are among the oldest art forms in Pakistan, dating back to the Indus Valley Civilisation (2,500 BCE).

The most popular techniques used include engraving intricate designs into the undercoating of the pottery and then glazing it with coloured transparent glazes.

The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing, and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and characteristically constant features of human life...