Artists for The National Art Gallery

The art community from Khyber to Karachi which includes painters, sculptors, printmakers, calligraphic artists, art critics, art historians, gallerists, art faculty and art students are very disturbed by these illegal and arbitarary actions against the National Art Gallery.

The Visual Art Community feels this will severely effect the functioning of the gallery which needs to operate freely to become a strong national institution.
The priority of the Pakistan National Council of the Arts should be to organize shows and display the National collection in all its galleries as promised to the visual arts community and hold its inauguration as soon as possible.

Please join the undersigned to convince the Pakistan National Council of The Arts to reconsider their decision and take the following steps without delay.

-To change the name back to THe National Art Gallery;

-To vacate all offices and galleries occupied by non-artists except for gallery staff and PNCA Gallery personnel;

-The galleries and offices must be given back to the National Art Gallery for their original purpose;

-The auditorium should be handed back to the National Art Gallery for programmes determined by the priorities of the Visual Art Community;

- to complete all its galleries and hire competent and dedicated staff to run them without further delay.

- inaugurate the National Art Gallery as soon as possible so it begin to play its role as the premier visual art insitution of the country.