"Regarding India, Conversations With Artists" an illustrated talk by Kathryn Myers at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP > 6:30pm on 29th May 2013
Time : 6:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Event Description : “Regarding India, Conversations With Artists” an illustrated talk by Kathryn Myers
The United States India Educational Foundation in collaboration with The Attic presents a talk by Fulbright alum Kathryn Myers. In 2011 initiated through a Fulbright Fellowship, Myers interviewed over 50 artists in various regions of India for a series of videotaped interviews. Created for a course she teaches on contemporary Indian art at the University of Connecticut, the videos have been made available for anyone to view through a website created for the project: www.regardingindia.com
Myers will show short clips from a range of videos in the series and feature full-length versions of her two most recent interviews with Delhi artists, photographer Dinesh Khanna and ceramicist Vineet Kacker.
Kathryn Myers is a painter and professor of studio art at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to India, in 2002 and 2011. In 2003 she was part of the creation of a new India studies program at the University of Connecticut, for which she developed a new course, “Indian Art and Popular Culture”. She has curated many exhibitions of Indian Art and art of the South Asian Diaspora, including “Masala, Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art at the William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, “Radiate” - Art of India and the Diaspora, at Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, and “Fellowship” Fulbright alumni artists from India and the US at the American Center, New Delhi. She is currently organizing an exhibition celebrating ten years of collecting contemporary Indian art at the Benton Museum at UConn, to open this fall.
She has presented videos from Regarding India at CEPT University Ahmedabad, the M.S. University of Baroda, Dakshinachitra, Muttakadu, Chennai, The University of Illinois, Chicago, Claremont College, Los Angeles, The University of Iowa and The College of New Jersey, Ewing.. Her videos on the Delhi photographer and Environmental activist Ravi Agarwal and Bangalore based installation artist Krishnaraj Chonat are part of the Multicultural Video Screening at the Society of Photographic Education. In 2012 she was awarded a fellowship in New Media for her video project by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
Venue Info : Events | About | Parking and Location | Regal Building Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Event Description : “Regarding India, Conversations With Artists” an illustrated talk by Kathryn Myers
The United States India Educational Foundation in collaboration with The Attic presents a talk by Fulbright alum Kathryn Myers. In 2011 initiated through a Fulbright Fellowship, Myers interviewed over 50 artists in various regions of India for a series of videotaped interviews. Created for a course she teaches on contemporary Indian art at the University of Connecticut, the videos have been made available for anyone to view through a website created for the project: www.regardingindia.com
Myers will show short clips from a range of videos in the series and feature full-length versions of her two most recent interviews with Delhi artists, photographer Dinesh Khanna and ceramicist Vineet Kacker.
Kathryn Myers is a painter and professor of studio art at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to India, in 2002 and 2011. In 2003 she was part of the creation of a new India studies program at the University of Connecticut, for which she developed a new course, “Indian Art and Popular Culture”. She has curated many exhibitions of Indian Art and art of the South Asian Diaspora, including “Masala, Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art at the William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, “Radiate” - Art of India and the Diaspora, at Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, and “Fellowship” Fulbright alumni artists from India and the US at the American Center, New Delhi. She is currently organizing an exhibition celebrating ten years of collecting contemporary Indian art at the Benton Museum at UConn, to open this fall.
She has presented videos from Regarding India at CEPT University Ahmedabad, the M.S. University of Baroda, Dakshinachitra, Muttakadu, Chennai, The University of Illinois, Chicago, Claremont College, Los Angeles, The University of Iowa and The College of New Jersey, Ewing.. Her videos on the Delhi photographer and Environmental activist Ravi Agarwal and Bangalore based installation artist Krishnaraj Chonat are part of the Multicultural Video Screening at the Society of Photographic Education. In 2012 she was awarded a fellowship in New Media for her video project by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
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"Regarding India, Conversations With Artists" an illustrated talk by Kathryn Myers at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP > 6:30pm on 29th May 2013
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