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The situation in Punjab is affecting everyone….

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A scene from my current exhibit, My Grandmother’s Dress — visual anthropology meets embellished photography to unearth interstitial histories and construct new meanings.

On Thursday, May 11 / 12:00 – 1:00 pm I will welcome Dr. Deepali Dewan, Dan Mishra Senior Curator, Global South Asia at the ROM and author of Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs: Towards a Transcultural History of Photography to the MacLaren. I look forward to hearing her speak about the history, function, and significance of this genre in conjunction with my exhibit.

For Sikh kids, seeing characters that look like themselves can help them become more self-confident. Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, children’s literature scholar says, “Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.”