Category : Arts Program
Apr 12, 2017 | Arts Program, News
This is part of a series in which we will profile organizations in India who received a Social Innovation grant through the SAI/Tata Trusts project on Livelihood Creation. ORGANIZATION DETAILS Organisation Name: Freeset Fabrics Year Founded: Private Limited Company...
Apr 6, 2017 | Announcements, Arts Program, News
In March 2017, we welcomed our Spring semester Visiting Artists: Madhu Das (Mumbai, India) and Rabindra Shrestha (Kathmandu, Nepal).
Mar 21, 2017 | Arts Program, Community, Fellows, News
By Meghan Smith, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, SAI Sometimes, to shatter the glass ceiling, you need a weapon. Rachel Parikh has plenty at her fingertips – and she wants to use them to break more than a few glass ceilings. As the Calderwood Curatorial...
Feb 9, 2017 | Announcements, Arts Program, News, Students
Professor Jinah Kim (History of Art & Architecture) is looking for a Research Assistant to help her with various research projects, which includes an exhibition on Nepalese Buddhist art, a visual database project, a bibliographic project on the history of Indian painting, and a symposium on South and Southeast Asian Art.
Jan 5, 2017 | Arts Program, Faculty, In Region, News
Jinah Kim, SAI faculty grant recipient, recently visited an exhibition in Beijing featuring Indian art. “The exhibition reminds us of the age old connections between the two countries, notably activated and solidified through the transmission of Buddhism.”
Dec 15, 2016 | Arts Program, India, News, Pakistan
Komal Shahid Khan, from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Meenakshi Sengupta, from Kolkata, India, attended classes, met with students and faculty, and displayed their work on campus. They also collaborated on an interactive performance piece about the Partition of India.
Dec 15, 2016 | Arts Program, News
From Nov. 29 – Dec. 9, the South Asia Institute hosted artist Komal Shahid Khan at Harvard through the Visiting Artist Program. Khan is a Visual Artist, based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She graduated from the University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2012 and then did...
Dec 15, 2016 | Arts Program, Community, Fellows, News
From Nov. 29 – Dec. 9, the South Asia Institute hosted artists Meenakshi Sengupta at Harvard through the Visiting Artist Program. Born in 1987, Kolkota, India, Meenakshi holds a B.V.A. 2011 (Painting), from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India and a M.F.A. 2013...
Dec 12, 2016 | Arts Program, Community
The South Asia Institute is honored to welcome Dipti Mathur to the SAI Arts Council. Council members provide support and advisement for the Arts at SAI program, which aims to connect South Asia’s curators, museum administrators, artists, and art educators with Harvard...
Nov 20, 2016 | Arts Program, Community, Fellows, News
During their time at Harvard, the artists will display their work on campus, meet with students, attend courses, and give a public seminar.
Nov 10, 2016 | Arts Program, Community, News
Rachel Parikh (@rachel.parikh), the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums took over SAI’s Instagram account (@HarvardSAI) to highlight some of the museum’s amazing South Asian Art collection.
Sep 28, 2016 | Arts Program, India, Students
Sonali Dhingra spent her summer learning Odia and learning more about Buddhist art in Odisha between the seventh and eleventh century.
