Artist Vanmala Jain (54) is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and specialised in Ceramic Design. She has taught ceramics and pottery in Mumbai for two decades at the Sir JJ School of Art, SNDT Women’s University and IIT Bombay. In 2000 she started her studio Kuprkabi at Santacruz and now runs her NGO Kuprkabi Foundation which works with women and school dropouts. Wight school dropout boys were trained by Jain in the art of ceramics and are now employed at Kuprkabi.