Catalogue Essay

 

 

E Catalog :

SHELLY JYOTI_INDIGOBLUEGOLD 2023 Catalog digital: 

Catalog pages 120 with cover 

Size 8.5x11inches 

Publication: Goodearth.in

 

 

 

 

 

ESSAYS:

CURATOR’S INTRODUCTION
INDIGO BLUES:SHELLY JYOTI’S TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS by Laura Kina

CENTERING THE MARGINS: TEXTILE ART OF SHELLY JYOTI by Johny ML Indian art historian, curator, and writer

FROM FASCINATION TO EXPLOITATION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANITY’S INDIGO OBSESSION by Barbara Hanson Forsyth, independent curator, co-author of forthcoming publication (2024), Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo for Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA

TRANSNATIONAL  COLONIAL COMMODITY by Michelle Yee, Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University

THE MOSAIC WALL OF INDIGO: “Red, White, and Black Make Blue”
by Lisa Trivedi, Christian A. Johnson Professor of Teaching Excellence and History, Hamilton College

 CONTEMPORARY PRINTED FASHION
by Sarah Fee, Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles (Asia and Africa), Royal Ontario Museum

INDIGO FARMERS IN COLONIAL BENGAL AND GANDHI’S INTERVENTION by Lisa Trivedi, Christian A. Johnson Professor of Teaching Excellence and History, Hamilton College

 INDIGO PLANT, COLOR, AND DYE: Celebrating the Subaltern with a Nearly 5,000-Year-old Textile Tradition

by Shelly Jyoti