The South Asia Art Initiative (SAAI) at UC Berkeley is excited to kick off this season’s Crisis and Creativity: Artists Speak Series with a conversation between filmmaker and multimedia artist Amar Kanwar and Shanay Jhaveri, Assistant Curator of International Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, moderated by Dr. Atreyee Gupta, Assistant Professor of Global Modern and South and Southeast Asian Art, History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. The event will be held on Zoom on Thursday, September 21 from 9AM-10:30AM Pacific Time.

Register here. 

Crisis and Creativity: Artists Speak is a new speaker series that addresses provocative and generative intersections between creative processes and societal, cultural, and environmental crises. The Series features conversations among artists, art professionals, curators, and scholars.

See the event listing on the SAAI Events Calendar for speaker bios and information on upcoming events in the Series.

Sponsored by: Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, South Asia Art Initiative, Department of History of Art, Department of Art Practice.