Passage to New Jersey: Women Artists of the South Asian Diaspora in Our Midst

Artists: Siona Benjamin, Anuradha Das, Priya Kambli, Swati Khurana, & Ela Shah.

Sponsored by the Institute for Women  &  Art (IWA) in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries. The IWA operates under the auspices of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities, Rutgers University. Co-sponsors include: Associate Alumnae of Douglass College; Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Dept. of Visual Arts/Mason Gross School of the Arts; Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes; Department of Art History; The Feminist Art Project; Institute for Research on Women; SAS Office of International Programs; and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, all at Rutgers; and the Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center, New Brunswick.

These events are made possible by funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/ Department of State, a partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maria and Henry Leon Memorial Fund. These exhibitions and programs complement campus-wide related events organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum and the South Asian Research Initiative at Rutgers (SARI). Viewers are invited to see New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, April 13 to July 31, 2008.

This exhibition is part of the IWA Exhibition Series.

The Institute for Women and Art welcomes all visitors with disabilities. Please contact the IWA for further details and information regarding accommodation of specific needs at: womenart.rutgers.edu or 732-932-3726.