folk art

Sushmita Kaneri, a software engineer-turned-social entrepreneur, launched Gullakaari to revive India’s endangered crafts and empower 1,000+ artisans with sustainable livelihoods. She is training them to make functional products through traditional art.

Explore Kirat Brahma's handmade heritage dolls that celebrate Assam's tribal culture. These soft toys bring Bodo traditions and folklore to life, preserving cultural stories for future generations.

Odisha’s Rajat Kumar Panigrahi is a zoology lecturer by day. But when office hours conclude, he dons another role — that of a preserver of folk art and music, through his online repository Matir Kala

In a Twitter thread, The Paperclip details the significance of burrakatha, an oral storytelling technique that is still popular in the villages of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

“I primarily work on two kinds of bottles; one is the upright bottle, in which we insert an LED light and the second one is one in which the bottle is inverted. This inverted bottle comes with a wooden stand, and that wood is also waste wood. All in all, we try and use all the discarded materials to put this together.”

“For far too long in Indian art, women have been depicted as goddesses or subordinates. In my artwork, I try to portray women as I see them around me," says the last of Kolkata's Patua painters.

These streets feel a bit more like art galleries these days, thanks to a French artist's larger-than-life murals that are freeing famous works of art from the confines of museums!

Artist and graphic designer Aparajita Barai takes inspiration from mythology and folk art for Beloved India, a project she began as a student in 2011.

Geeta Bhat is bringing Karnataka’s Deevaru community into the spotlight, and securing new means of sustainable livelihood through their arts and crafts.

The art residency “Excavating Odisha” aims to bring together contemporary urban artists with rural artisans to create mesmerising art.