Rangoli at the Vermont Statehouse for Arts Advocacy Day
In March 2018, I conducted an interactive Rangoli performance at the Vermont State House for Arts Advocacy Day. Further information and images can be found Arts Advocacy Day at the Vermont State House
Rangoli Residency at River Rock School, Montpelier, VT
In early January I had the pleasure of completing a Rangoli residency at the River Rock School in Montpelier, VT. River Rock is a small school with fewer than 50 students and mixed-grade activity classes, which gave us the perfect opportunity to experiment with some new ideas.Students learned about geometry, shape and pattern, and designed their own Rangolis on […]
Artist-in-Residence at Champlain College MakerLab & Solo Exhibition at CCM Gallery
For the duration of 2016 spring semester, I was artist-in-residence at the Champlain College MakerLab. The 15-week residency culminated with a solo-exhibition–Peripheral Vision opened at the CCM Art Gallery in October 2016. While exploring the line between between permanence and the ephemeral, I have been experimenting with cutting-edge 3D-printer technology and created a body of […]
Rangoli Residency at The Danville School
April 10th – 17th, 2016 was Danville Arts Week, and I had the wonderful opportunity of working with students from Pre-K through 12th grade at The Danville School in the Northeast Kingdom, VT. Students participated in a number of activities including Rangoli design, mindful doodling and pattern making, quilt-creation from transparent film, and large-scale rice-embellished […]
Rangoli Residency at Georgia Elementary School
In January 2015, I had the opportunity to work with the students of Georgia Elementary School as artist-in-residence. The 2nd through to 4th graders made some incredible work and we began by studying ephemeral art around the world. Over the course of 4 days, the students prepared their materials, created their own designs and participated […]
Rangoli Residency at the Integrated Arts Academy
For the month of April 2014, I had the opportunity to teach two arts-integrated residencies at the IAA in Burlington, VT. Working with both 1st-grade classes (with teachers Jen Nesson and Alice Patalano,) we integrated social studies and mathematics with visual arts. Focusing on the art of India, we studied Rangoli, even visiting the Tibetan […]
Teachers Retreat: Integrated Arts Academy
This January I held a Rangoli workshop for the teachers of the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington, VT for their annual retreat. We had a wonderfully productive 90 minutes, which began with a brief guided meditation to get everyone in a meditative frame of mind for creating a Rangoli. Split into smaller groups, each team […]
Rangoli in the Burlington Free Press
An article on my Rangoli practice written by Megan Bantle, was featured in the Burlington Free Press, VT on Sunday September 1st 2013. An online version (with video feature) can be found below: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130901/ARTS04/309010001/Montpelier-artist-teaches-traditional-Indian-artform
Interactive Rangoli Performance at the Essex Peabody Museum
On Saturday October 19th, I was invited to lead an interactive Rangoli performance at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA., to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition, Beyond Human: Artist-Animal Collaborations.Over 50 children and adults participated throughout the day to help construct the 6.5ft x 6.5ft Rangoli which was made from a mixture of […]
The Rusholme Education Project
This week I’ve had a flashback to a project I was involved with in the Summer of 2006. In conjunction with Shisha (the international agency for South Asian visual arts & crafts), I conducted a series of Rangoli workshops with the Year 6 students of St. Edwards Roman Catholic Primary School, in Rusholme, Manchester UK. […]