The pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which originated in the city of Wuhan, China, already spread rapidly to different countries, with several cases registered globally. India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has raised awareness of the recent outbreak and has taken the steps required to monitor the spread of COVID-19. Several are taken by the central and state government’s steps to accomplish this aim and the formulation of many wartime protocols. In the arts and cultural heritage market, the COVID-19 pandemic had a sudden and significant impact. Organizations in the arts and culture field have sought to maintain their (often publicly funded) mission of providing the community with access to cultural heritage; protecting the protection of their staff, collections, and the public; thus responding with an uncertain end to the sudden change in their business model. Kumartuli, a neighborhood in Kolkata, India holds a significant place in history, along with a strong association with the cardinal festival of Bengal, Durgapuja, and a long tradition of making clay idols. Idol art is one of the civic folk art in Kolkata and many people like artisans, sharpeners, potters etc. are involved in the Idol industry.In the paper, we mainly focus on how the potter colony that sculpts deities throughout the year in Kolkata’s Kumartuli, desolate darkness during COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the paper also highlights how cyclone Amphan, which devastated the city on 20 May 2020, affected the income of craftsmen who had already been heavily affected by the Novel Coronavirus lockdown (COVID-19).The objective of the work focuses the problem and prospect of well-known and not-well-known artisans in the situation of COVID-19, including women clay artists from Kumartuli, Kolkata. Through this article, the social and economic circumstances of artisans, financial crisis, job opportunities are enlightened through interview schedules, group discussions with idol makers and women clay artists wherever possible.

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic, Amphan, Kumartuli, Artisans, Financial Crisis.