Electronic producer Sahej Bakshi and artist-educator Krishna Jhaveri are stepping into education with Fieldworks, a new artist-led platform focused on digital creative skills. The Goa-based initiative goes live on 1 April 2026, aimed at teenagers and beginners looking to access disciplines that remain largely outside formal schooling.
Fieldworks opens with a slate of programmes spanning music production, filmmaking, video editing and storytelling. Its flagship course, The Creative Immersion, combines three months of online learning with a week-long residency in Goa this July, where students complete projects at the Fieldworks studio under the guidance of working professionals.
“All Fieldworks programs will be mentored by expert educators who are active professionals in their respective fields, a distinction the founders consider essential to the quality and relevance of what Fieldworks teaches.”
Bakshi frames the platform as a response to a gap he has seen up close. “One of the problems we’re aiming to address is a genuine shortage of qualified teachers of digital arts skills for adolescents. With Fieldworks, we’re inviting our community of artists, creators and working professionals to help change that and to deliver the kind of creative education that simply hasn’t existed for young people in India until now,” he says.
Jhaveri positions the idea within a broader shift. “Digital artistry is rapidly emerging as the new currency of our age, and the work we are setting out to do at Fieldworks is driven by a clear mission, to equip India’s young creative minds with the tools they need to thrive in tomorrow’s global economy.”
The premise is straightforward. India’s young population is deeply connected to technology, but structured routes into digital creativity are still limited. Schools continue to prioritise classical music or physical art forms, while tools like DAWs, editing software and colour grading suites remain peripheral. Fieldworks is built around closing that gap and reframing how younger users engage with screens.
“Fieldworks’ response is to transform the relationship young people have with screens, turning devices that are typically sources of distraction into instruments of creation.”
Bakshi brings close to two decades of experience as an artist and entrepreneur, including his work as Dualist Inquiry and co-founding Boxout.fm in 2017. Reflecting on the idea’s origin, he says, “I was lucky to discover the creative power of a laptop at 19. But what if I’d had that power at 13? Fieldworks was born to answer that question.”
Jhaveri’s background spans performance, academia and engineering, with credits alongside artists including Skyharbor, DIVINE, Goddess Gagged and Indus Creed. His long-standing interest in teaching feeds directly into the platform’s design. “Beyond bridging skill gaps, we are building a pathway for our students to step onto the world stage not just as participants, but as world-class creative professionals.”
Joining them as founding partner is Vaibhav Chhabra, known for building Makers Asylum. “The future of creativity is not digital or physical, it’s the seamless integration of both,” he says. “It’s not just about learning tools, but about shaping how people think and express.”
Alongside its core programmes, Fieldworks plans to host city pop-ups and weekly online seminars, expanding its community-led approach beyond the classroom.
To find out more, visit: www.fieldworks.in
