The Purushottam Public Trust Scholarships
SCHOLARSHIPS
As an important form of Contemporary and Modern Art, Graphic Printmaking is unique and exhaustive, expensive and laborious to practice. The Purushottam Annual Merit Award for Printmaking encourages artists to continue this art form through monetary support as well as offering a platform for them to showcase their work. We hope to play a small role by helping talented budding artists, especially print-makers. The core objective is to provide initial momentum to a deserving artist as he/she leaves the cocooned existence of a university and embarks on a professional journey.
One of the main initiatives of the Trust is, therefore, to offer scholarships to new talent in the filed of print making, and we offer scholarships and a platform for exposure to them.
In alignment with this, every year, since 2014, the Purushottam Public Trust has awarded an annual merit award to a student in the field of print-making.
This is executed under the aegis of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts and the Head of the Department of Graphics at the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, Gujarat - the premier institution of contemporary Indian art in the country. This annual merit award is conferred on the student securing highest marks in the final examinations of the Graphic Arts Course (Practical). The awardee receives a monetary award of Rupees One Lac, as well as the opportunity to showcase his/her works at the end of the year at a premier art gallery in Vadodara.
The Purushottam Public Trust awarded its Annual Merit Scholarship for the year 2024 to Spandan Mundhe.
2020 Diploma in Drawing and Painting J. K. Academy of Art & Design, Mumbai
2025 M.V.A in Printmaking, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda
Spandan Mundhe’s visual language involves the struggles and the mundane he witnesses within society, using elements of satire and a camouflaged narrative style. This masked approach holds viewers to decode their own positions and responses towards past, present, and potential future realities. His critical examination of humans’ ever-changing values, morals, and ethics, highlights the influential relationship between the powerful and the insignificant. He interprets and responds to these experiences through a deeply humanistic lens.
In April 2025, he completed his Post Graduation Program of Graphic Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, with the highest rank in his grade, earning him this year’s award.
Several of his works have been exhibited in Cincinnati (Ohio), Yerevan (Armenia), Fantapia.M (South Korea), BIGAI International (Argentina) and we look forward to organising his Solo Show in the following year too.
