International Institute of Fine Arts (IIFA) was established by Satish Kumar and Abha Modi in Modinagar, NCR of Delhi in July 2000. Its aim was to provide education and training to students on a wide spectrum of Fine Arts. The institute has a huge 10 acre campus with a built-up area of about 200,000 sq.ft. The Institute has also initiated a programme for artists-in-residence. The venue has a 20 acr
e orchard with a colonial-style palatial bungalow and a village pond, an ideal location for artists, both foreign and Indian, to come together. Modinagar, very close to New Delhi, is now a centre for education where facilities are available in the field of Management, Fashion, Medicine, Engineering, Computer education, not to mention the various schools and colleges. The Institute offers degree courses in Fine Art, including Fashion & Apparel Design, Textile Design & Applied Art. It is affiliated to Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut for the 4 year B.F.A. Besides this, the Institute is also providing two year diploma and one year certificate in the above mentioned streams, along with Photography and Advanced Diploma in Computer Graphics and 3D Animation. The core of the Institute is its students and faculty. Whilst there are core faculty members on the roll of the Institute, it has always been the endeavour to benefit from the experience of the visiting faculty from within India and abroad. The Institute has already had the benefit of visiting faculty members from University of the Arts, London who have been conducting annual workshops at the Institute. Several eminent artists / teachers from within India have also been teaching with demonstrations / slide lectures to the students on various foundation and specialization level subjects. Besides, a panel of experts who are well known fashion designers & artists from Delhi like Rohit Bal, Rina Dhaka, Manish Malhotra, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Satish Gujral, Anish Kapoor. Anjolie Ela Menon, S.H. Raza, Manjit Bawa, Arpana Caur & Jai Zharotia have been offering their valuable advice to the academic programmes of the Institute of Fine Arts. The details of facilities, content of courses and career prospects are given elsewhere in this prospectus. The students who are trained in Art and Design at the institute are given exposure to develop sufficient competency to enter the competitive professional field. This education would enhance them for a job opportunity and placement in the related area in the wider world. The Institute will help and promote them as they leave its portals.
