Potter’s son bags gold medal in fine arts

Visakhapatnam | Sunday | 15th October, 2017

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Hailing from a family of potters, Siva Krishna could have followed the others of his generation to take up other lucrative sources of income. A post graduate in Fine Arts from Hyderabad University, Siva is not only striving to make a mark as a sculptor while working on mediums like terracotta, he also bagged a gold medal in his MFA course this year. But he chose to support the pottery profession through art. My aim is to carry on the pottery tradition through my art works,” he adds. “The problem is that traditional potters are not trained or tuned to adjust to the needs of the times..