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Interior designer Shalini Misra and friends at the home of Artists of Nathdwara co-founder and temple mukhiya Parmanand Sharma
Dr. Isabella Nardi and Waswo X. Waswo at the home of artist Parmanand Sharma
Dr. Debra Diamond at the studio of artist Suresh V. Sharma
Celebrating the dedication of the first copy of Dr. Anita Shah’s new book Colours of Devotion: The Legendary Paintings and Textiles of Vallabh Sampradaya 1500-1900 at the Haveli ki Shrinathji in Nathdwara
Fashion textiles students from Amity School of Fashion Technology, Jaipur, discuss a traditional Gopashtami pichvai with artist Shyam Sharma and lean in to observe Parmanand Sharma sketching.
A new experience for us all, this project and my time in India during my Fulbright fellowship presented a most important lesson. With no choice but to cast aside the familiar trappings of the Westernized art world, I slowly learned from the artists, new friends, and neighbors that life really does imitate art and that both amount to more than a stressful onslaught of deadlines, and that things always work themselves out with mutual understanding, unconditional support, and a bit of faith.