From July 9-11, hundreds of folk artists from 52 countries will gather at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market to showcase and sell their special crafts. How precious is something that is learned from one’s ancestors and unique and beautiful in the modern world! Another “must-see” is the Museum of International Folk Art, where […]
I received good news that Farah Ghuznavi – with whom I worked at the United Nations Development Programme in Bangladesh – has just released a short story in Woman’s Work, a diverse collection of short stories by forty women writers that promises to be an interesting read. Congratulations Farah! Early in my time in Bangladesh, Farah […]
Anil Advani, who has been helping us so much in photographing Surayia’s work in Bangladesh, recently joined Surayia and others at the US Embassy in Dhaka to document the two nakshi kantha tapestries that Surayia completed about twenty years ago for the US Embassy building in Bangladesh which opened in 1989. One of these tapestries […]
I recently spoke with Dr. Niaz Zaman of Bangladesh, one of the world’s foremost experts on kantha embroidery who we interviewed for “Threads” during a film shoot in Dhaka in April. She will be giving a special lecture about the evolution of kantha on Sunday, June 13, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Kantha: […]
Happy Mother’s Day! Nakshi Kantha tapestry inspired by the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore: “When I bring you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints – when I give coloured toys to you, my child.” Photographs used with the […]