USA: Arkansas children salute Nek Chand

Children from the Gibbs Magnet School in Little Rock. Arkansas produced a whole series of campaigning artworks in support of Nek Chand's Rock Garden. All were students of Susan Turner Purvis, the school's art specialist, who initiated the project.

New York: Foundation at Art Fair

January 1998 - The Nek Chand Foundation was represented at the Outsider Art Fair in New York. Director Sara Burns said she was delighted that fair organisers Sanford Smith Associates had donated a space to the Foundation. Nek Chand has confirmed from Chandigarh that all donors to this important cause are to have their names inscribed on a special 'wall of friends' at the Rock Garden. The Foundation also hopes to arrange student and artist visits to aid the conservation efforts as well as a large group visit to Chandigarh. tel: 0171 359 1747

Britain: Apna Arts calendar

Asian art organisation, Apna Arts, are publishing a calendar to commemorate Nek Chand's visit to Britain in 1997 and the work that was carried out by the artists he inspired in special workshops. Available from Apna Arts, NCAC, 39 Gregory Blvd, Nottingham NG7 6BB

Holland: Nek Chand stars in Zwolle show

One hundred miniature sculptures by Nek Chand are one of the major attractions at the Het Formaat exhibition of miniature outsider art at the Dutch Museum for Outsider and Naive Art in the city of Zwolle.