Annapurna Garimella
Independent Scholar, Art Historian, Designer
Dr. Annapurna Garimella is a designer and an art historian. Her research focuses on late medieval Indic architecture and the history and practices of vernacular visual and built cultures in India after Independence. She is co-editor of The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History (2019) and editor of The Long Arc of South Asian Art: A Reader in Honor of Vidya Dehejia (New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021). Digesting the Past: The Discourse of Sacralized Architectural Renovation in Southern India (14th-17th Centuries) is her book manuscript under preparation. Garimella is the Managing Trustee of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust. She also heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organization with a specialized portfolio of design, research and curation. Jackfruit’s recent curatorial projects include Vernacular, in the Contemporary (Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi 2010-11), Mutable: Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947 (Piramal Museum of Art, 2017), and Barefoot College of Craft in Goa (Serendipity Arts Festival, 2017-18).
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