Srinagar, Aug. 23 -- Five of India's most acclaimed printmakers will guide young artists, students, and teachers through the intricate processes of etching, woodcut, linocut, and lithography.

From Hyderabad, Padma Reddy and Rajeswara Rao will join Jayanti Rabadia and Surashree Rabadia from Vadodara, and Jayesh Shukla from Rajkot, Gujarat.

Their presence marks a milestone for the valley, where opportunities to work alongside master printmakers have been rare.

The venue is the newly established Kashmir Art and Artists Foundation (KAAF) Studio, nestled in the foothills of Harwan with a view of Dal Lake.

Nasreen Mohsin, a printmaker with a Masters of Fine Arts from M.S. University, Baroda, and her husband, writer and filmmaker Fayaz Dilba...