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Beyond the India-America Dichotomy:
Global Dynamism in Contemporary Art
FREE Virtual event via Zoom
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Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am CT
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Listen to the first-hand narratives and engage with our panel of diasporic creators of contemporary art.
In accordance with pandemic related public health and safety advisory, we have transitioned our program to a virtual platform.
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Kumkum Sangari
Panel moderator Kumkum Sangari is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, and a Visiting Professor at Several US and European universities.
Dr. Sangari has published extensively on British, American and Indian literature, the gendering of South Asian medieval devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as M.K.Gandhi, Bombay cinema, televisual memory, feminist art practice, and several contemporary gender issues and communal violence.
She is the author of Solid Liquid: A Transnational Reproductive Formation (2015) and Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English (1999).
More about Dr. Sangari here
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Kushala Vora
Kushala Vora is a dreamer, community organizer and an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture and drawing. Her practice is deeply influenced by the ecological and social landscape of Panchgani, India, where she grew up.
Kushala received her Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Mana Contemporary, Chicago; Harvard University, Cambridge; Chicago Artist Coalition among other places. She has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE Residency, Søndre Green Farm Norway, Chicago Artist Coalition and Anderson Ranch Art Center. She is the co-founder of Atmo, a reading + praxis forum.
More about Kushala Vora here
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Neha Vedpathak
Neha Vedpathak employs the plucking, she invented to create works that aim to broaden the dialog and understanding of issues related to identity, spirituality, social and gender politics. Vedpathak has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Fountainhead Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Greece, Bharat Bhavan Graphic Studio, India & CAMAC, France. Vedpathak’s works have been exhibited at ASU Art Museum, Arizona, The Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina, a solo exhibition at the Flint Art Museum, Michigan, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago and The Detroit Institute of Arts among other galleries and institutions. The artist lives and maintains a studio in Detroit.
More about Neha Vedpathak here
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Shaurya Kumar
Curator of E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora, Shaurya Kumar is a native of Delhi, India where he studied printmaking and painting at the College of Art. He earned his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2007.
Since 2001, Kumar has been involved in numerous prestigious research projects, like “The Paintings of India” (a series of 26 documentary films on the painting tradition of India); "Handmade in India" (an encyclopedia on the handicraft traditions of India); and digital restorations of 6th century Buddhist mural paintings from the caves of Ajanta.
Shaurya Kumar currently serves as Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Chair of Faculty.
More about Shaurya Kumar here
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E/MERGE Art of the Indian Diaspora
continues through Sunday, March 27, 2022
at the Umang and Paragi Patel Center
815 S. Main Street, Lombard, Illinois.
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- Admission is $5.00. Children younger than 12 are admitted free.
- For adults, the program fee includes access to the museum on the same day.
- The museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.
- Group tours for other times are available by appointment.
- NIAM is following CDC guidelines for all in-person programs.
- Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
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