From art week 2025: Jaipur again comes to the forefront of contemporary art for Jaipur, the capital of rich culture-setting during the Jaipur Art Week 2025. This year, the event brings forth the point of getting the arts and cognitive development together through an exceptional initiative called “Art for Baby.” Rudritara Shroff is the young curator at the head of this event who has his vision deeply implanted in her family art legacy.
“I feel extremely lucky to have inherited a legacy of art,” said Rudritara Shroff, who spoke at the book launch at the Public Arts Trust of India across Jaipur. “My grandmother used to collect black-and-white drawings and when I was a child used these instead of simple flashcards. So, it was a very creative way to do exercises for brain development. That was the genesis of ‘Art for Baby’.”
She is trying to use the book to educate the public about the first thousand days of an infant’s life, that is, before and up to two years of age, during which maximum cognitive development takes place, according to WHO.
Jaipur Art Week 2025: The Launch of ‘Art for Baby’
Like time honored tradition, the launch of ‘Art for Baby’ was indeed the most consequential event roped under the machineries of Jaipur Art Week. The place was buzzing with art lovers who wished to experience this combine of art and science. It was Sana Rizwan, founder Public Arts Trust of India, who launched the book and emphasized the need to expose children to colors and art from birth itself.
Art for Baby targets children between 0 and 3 years, during which time they begin seeing and understanding visual representations. In the book, the works of some highly respected contemporary Indian artists such as Dhruvi Acharya, Jyotsna Bhatt, Jogen Chowdhury, Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta, N.S. Harsha, Reena Saini Kallat, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Manish Nai, Amol Patil, Gigi Scaria, and Sudarshan Shetty are included. They all donate their creations in a black, white, and grey palette, which are best suited for viewing by newborn children.
Here enter Rudritara’s findings from research on early childhood development: the first thousand days of life-the all-important foundation in the development of the brain. So she initiated this collaboration with those artists to do a book that would, besides entertain, work for cognitive growth and development in infants.
This endeavor, ‘Art for Baby’, moves beyond visual stimulus-a really interesting intersection between art and science, and how such artistic exposure in infancy and early childhood could act as great influences in human development figured in the foundational stages. This project by Rudritara stands as the proof of a belief, that if made thoughtfully, then art can really be a great means for education and development, especially in the most impressionable years of life.
The launch of a book concerning art itself did not present an interesting event in the way it spoke about mobilizing parents, teachers, and the whole community toward taking advantage of those windows of opportunity these first 1,000 days provide. A mind infused with such pass would now work to sew Rudritara Shroff’s serious business obsession with a passion for art towards community welfare; indeed, art is for everybody, including this youngest.
“Art for Baby,” which, in our digital era, when most people are at times transfixed in front of their computer or I-phone screens, reminds us of the uncomplicated and yet powerful physical art in molding young minds towards love for creativity that might last a lifetime. The Jaipur Art Week 2025 has thus ‘not only celebrated’ but also built a pathway for celebrating integrating art education and co-curriculum activity from the very start.
Source Rajasthan Patrika
