On the occasion of International Museum Day, the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum invites you to a special public lecture on the art of embroidery and knitting in contemporary art practice with curator Anushka Rajendran & director of IIC New Delhi Andrea Anastasio.
The lecture will feature panelist Anushka Rajendran, with whom the Italian Cultural Centre is collaborating since 2024 when she was selected by Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy to be in a special program for Young Art Curators, supported by the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi.
About the Curator: Anushka Rajendran
Anushka Rajendran is an independent curator and art writer. She was most recently the Assistant Curator for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018. She is also the Curator of Prameya Art Foundation (PRAF), a recently established not-for-profit arts organization committed to approaches that enable audience-thinking for contemporary art in India. She has conceptualized the programming of PRAF to search for new and engaged publics in India and experiment with non-traditional pedagogy for the arts. Formerly, as part of her long-standing position as Assistant Editor for the leading South Asian arts journal TAKE on art, she curated and conceptualized outreach initiatives and programming for the publication, besides her hands-on editorial role.
Free entry, open to all.