Art, Access, & Insight

Mrs. Jyothi K. Kumar was born deaf at Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. But she has made Bangalore her permanent residence. Mrs. Jyothi completed her five-year course in KEN SCHOOL of ARTS and got a Diploma in Fine Arts. During this period, she took active part in the organization of exhibitions at Venkatappa Art Gallery and other places. As a recognition of her work, she won NATIONAL SUVARNA BALASHREE RATNA AWARD IN 1997. Later, she got a diploma in Computer application, Multimedia and Web Multimedia.

During this period, she worked as a Commercial artist, textile designer, Miniature Painting Artist (Creative) in various companies. She was ex-committee member of Deaf Aids Society for funding Sheila Kothavala Institute for Deaf, Bangalore. She was working as part time drawing teacher and was counseling to motivate the deaf senior students to improve their studies at Sheila Kothavssala Institute for Deaf. Apart from this, she is a freelancer in graphics and painting.