Passing Down Traditions and Culture: Methods of Painting Education at the Jelekong Painting Center, Bandung, Indonesia

Painting skills of the Jelekong community have cultural values that need to be inherited to be passed on or communicated to the next generation through a self-taught practical art education process, given that culture is a learning process, not biologically inherited.One form of cultural inheritance to the next generation can be done through art education for generations.In education, learning to paint is seen as a means to achieve educational goals, including helping growth and development, fostering aesthetic development and helping to perfect life.This paper examines how painting skills of the Jelekong community are passed down.This research employs a case study approach as a research method, with informants being the village head, Jelekong painters, and Jelekong culturalists.It uses semi-structured in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and document studies as data collection procedures.This paper reveals how self-taught educational methods at the Jelekong Painting are implemented and concludes that they contribute to preserving traditional Indonesian paintings.These methods provide a roadmap for the next generation to pass on their skills in maintaining and enriching traditions and culture.This research reveals that the methods used by the Jelekong painters do not have a formal fine arts educational background to teach painting skills but are passing down the skills effectively.Painting methods facilitate the transfer of skills from generation to generation It highlights the dynamic interaction between art education, traditional and cultural heritage and the preservation of conventional painting skills at the Jelekong Painting Center.It also provides a valuable perspective on the broader role of art education in maintaining overall cultural continuity and identity.