Meeta Mastani is an internationally known print/dye artist, design specialist and community development advocate.
Click here to view photos from the final residency event, "Tactile Textiles: Color and Culture." You can view photo albums from Meeta's entire residency on SmugMug by clicking here.
Meeta Mastani combines playful images and natural colors to create hand printed textiles of modern India with Earth Play at the Madison Children's Museum, on display in the windows through the end of January.
In collaboration with Associate Professor Mary Hark (Design Studies), Meeta has created an artist book with handmade paper made of un-ginned cotton, flax and abaca, and dyed with natural colors. The book will contain some of Meeta's textile art and that of her students while they were learning the process. The book will be gifted to the Kohler Art Library.
Meeta Mastani will teach a semester-long course in the fall of 2016 called "Tactile Textiles - From 2D to 3D." Watch a video on the course here.
Drop in to create decorative and political themes in henna with Meeta and her students. This event is free and open to the public! Supplies will be provided.
Third Floor Terrace, Humanities Building | 455 N. Park Street
Sarah K Khan, multimedia artist in film, photography, textiles and more, will give an artist talk, discussing art as a tool of political expression through her character Amrita Simla. The event includes a screening of her film Bowing to No One.
Room L160, Elvehjem Building | 800 University Avenue
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Lakshmi Narayan Kadambi, expert on draping, tying styles and contemporizing traditional craft, will give an artist talk on the history of draping styles of India.
Room L160, Elvehjem Building | 800 University Avenue
*Revised time and location
Meeta Mastani will participate in the panel "Decay and Resilience in the Indian Arts and Craft Sector with a Focus on Textiles," as part of the Annual Conference on South Asia. The panel also includes Lakshmi Narayan Kadambi, Sarah K Khan and Henry Drewal.
Registration and fee is required. For more information, visit southasiaconference.wisc.edu.
Parlor 638, Madison Concourse Hotel | 1 W. Dayton Street
Meeta will discuss her art practice, Bindaas Unlimited (her sustainable fair trade textile and craft business) and her work with artisans in rural Rajasthan, India. Refreshments will be served at 7:00 pm.
This artist talk is presented by the Arts Institute, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, Wisconsin BBA and Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Plenary Room (1310) | Wisconsin School of Business, Grainger Hall | 975 University Avenue
New works by students enrolled in Meeta Mastani's course will be unveiled on Friday, December 2 as part of The Bubbler @ Madison Public Library’s Night Light series. The opening of the show will feature two performances of "Rubedo,"a collaborative dance piece created by Li Chiao-Ping Dance in response to Meeta's work.
The exhibition Tactile Textiles: Colors and Culture will be on display in the Madison Room from December 2 – December 6, 2016.
Madison Room | Third floor, Madison Public Library | 201 W. Mifflin Street
