The Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta is called GCAC in short.
The painters, sculptors, designers and printmakers representing India: Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Atul Bose, Deviprasad Roychoudhury, Bhabesh Sanyal, Ganesh Pyne, Paritosh Sen, Ranen Ayan Dutta, Jogen Choudhury, Sunil Das, Shakti Burman, Amitava Banerjee, Subrata Bhowmick, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Paresh Maity, Ashok Bhowmik, Aditya Basak, Samir Mondal, Samir Aich, Atin Basak, Paresh Hazra, Subrata Gangopadhyay and many more are alumnus of this college.
The revival movement of Oriental School of Art started here, encouraged by E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore. The college is 144 years old now. The friends of GCAC are the well-wishers who care for this age-old institution and its great contribution in the field of Indian Art.

Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, (or GCAC in short) is the oldest art institution of India. It was established in Kolkata in 1864. One can know its glorious past and dynamic present from the official website: www.gcackolkata.org.
GCAC Friends is a social networking site bringing together the present students and alumni of GCAC and all Art-oriented friends and Connoisseurs world-wide.
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** Statutory Declaration: The gcacfriends.ning.com is a private and non-commercial network created by the present and alumnus students of GCAC, interested to make global interactions. It has no link or interactivity with the official site of GCAC, an institution run by the Govt of West Bengal.

Rebanta Goswami
1976 alumnus of GCAC,
(network creator)