Cholamandal Artists' Village

Cholamandal Artists' Village, about 9 km from Adyar in Chennai, was founded in 1966 by a group of artists linked to Chennai's Government School of Arts and Crafts. Its houses, studios, galleries, workshops and theatre are owned and run jointly by its members, and it became self-supporting in the 1970s. It is described as India's largest self-sustaining artists' village and is closely tied to the Madras Movement in South Indian art.

The open-air theatre, Bharathi, is used for talks and conferences, and since 2009 the Cholamandal Centre for Contemporary Art has housed the Museum of the Madras Movement. The village no longer takes new members, but around a dozen artists live or work there at any time, along with artists in residence, and its work is shown in Europe, the United States and South America.