![]() ![]() ![]() The museum is open air: you walk around and look at, for example, a massive display of terra cotta sculptures, wall paintings and carvings representing different traditions, and stalls where craftspeople are producing and selling their work. The Crafts Museum proved to be the ideal location for this gathering, since it allowed me to place contemporary graphic practices in India in the context of a much larger tradition of pictographic wall art from various local cultures. It showcases living crafts traditions from across the country. The Museum itself is a great institution. Parmesh Shahani from the Godrej Indian Culture Lab, my host, had arranged for a meeting at the Crafts Museum for lunch with a mix of some of the country’s top creators of graphic novels. I am going to use the next few posts to share what I learned. ![]() My time in Delhi was especially preoccupied with trying to understand the current state of comics and graphic novels in India, given that many key artists and authors are based in that city. I want to return to my travel narrative over the next few posts - first focusing on Delhi and later on some of the other cities in India we visited. So far, my account of my trip to India this summer has centered on time spent in Mumbai (which was our home base) and its surrounding cities. ![]()
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