One enters the exhibit “The Art of Indian Kolam: Traditional Designs and New Media” at Northampton Community College with the impression that nothing can be simpler than a bunch of pictograms composed ...

Award-winning Indian American artist Shanthi Chandrasekar led a Kolam art installation April 24 at the U.S. Capitol. A Kolam is an Indian art form of geometric patterns, used as a welcome sign. (photo ...

Architecture, art, music, food and stories are the essence of what forms and keeps a community together, says social anthropologist Yasmin Hales, who has launched her exhibition - Talking Streets - at ...

Kolam are the detailed patterns drawn on the ground outside houses in India. At Kolam in Newtown, the word also refers to the delicacy of the blends of spices in the regional cuisine of the vast ...

Shanthi Chandrasekar, a Maryland-based multimedia artist, took the more than 2,000 pieces of decorated cardboard sent to her by people across the country to create a welcome mat of sorts for Vice ...

50+ Happy New Year Rangoli Designs 2025: The New Year is a time of fresh beginnings, and what better way to welcome 2025 than by embracing the age-old tradition of creating mesmerizing floor art?

Cut to September 2022 and Chinmayee launched The Kumbhkári Project, her label featuring a range of functional tableware. “After the course, I studied for a couple of weeks at ClayStation, Bengaluru, ...

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Outside her house in south India, Maria Victor embarks on a decades-old morning ritual that has turned into a key planning tool for impoverished ...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are about to receive an Indian-style welcome to Washington, D.C. A group of volunteers are putting together a kolam, a traditional South Indian art form used as a sign of ...