Thursday, October 8, 2020
11:00 AM EDT
Zoom
Meet some of the artisan design graduates of Somaiya Kala Vidya (SKV) who are featured in the exhibition Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia. SKV offers year-long courses in design and business to provide effective, relevant, and practical education to artists in India. In this online program, SKV artists and founder-director emeritus Judy Frater will join GW’s Kavita Daiya to discuss their inspirations, artistic concepts, and the importance of design education for artisans. Kavita Daiya, director of GW’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, will add her perspective on global feminism.
Joining in the discussion are panelists Akib Ibrahim Khatri, ajrakh artisan designer; Adil Mustak Khatri and Zakiya Adil Khatri, bandhani artisan designers; Laxmi Dinesh Parmar, suf embroidery artisan designer; Sajnuben Pachan Rabari, rabari embroidery artisan designer. The discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator Cristin McKnight Sethi.
About the Series
In this three-part virtual series, meet the artists and organizers featured in the exhibition Handmade: Creating Textiles in South Asia through dynamic conversations moderated by curator Cristin McKnight Sethi and faculty from GW. This series is a collaboration with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs and the Textile Museum.
Thank you! Very interesting.