Curators

Anjana Somany

Anjana Somany

Anjana Somany is a researcher specializing in Art History, connecting the subject to India's living craft traditions. Her over three decades long  work in crafts and textiles began as Member Founding Committee Crafts Council Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana) and is a Past President of the Delhi Crafts Council.
Sandeep Sangaru

Sandeep Sangaru

Sandeep Sangaru is a nomad in thought and a maker by hand. His journey meanders through mountain trails and craft ateliers, where exploration and observation quietly shape the rhythm of his work.
Kristine Michael

Kristine Michael

Dr Kristine Michael is a ceramic artist, arts educator, curator and historian of Indian ceramic and glass works. She has curated at Serendipity Arts Festival in 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025. Her curatorial projects include Multiple Reailties-Voices in Contemporary Indian ceramics at Clarch Gimhae Museum Korea in 2023-2024 among others.

Rashmi Varma

Rashmi Varma

Rashmi Varma is a designer, artist, and curator whose interdisciplinary practice spans fashion, film, theatre, interiors, and the visual arts, with garments and textiles at its core. Her work explores the intimacy of cloth, the sculptural form of drape, and the performative nature of wearing,
Annapurna Garimella

Annapurna Garimella

Annapurna Garimella is a Delhi-based designer and an art historian. Her research focuses on late medieval Indic architecture and the history and practices of vernacular art forms in India after Independence.
Manjari Nirula

Manjari Nirula

Manjari Nirula, curator for Craft in the 2016 and 2017 edition of Serendipity Arts Festival, curated a series of projects and exhibitions which highlighted materials, techniques and regional hand skills still being practiced in India

Jyotindra Jain

Jyotindra Jain

Jyotindra Jain, curator for Visual Arts in the 2019 edition of Serendipity Arts Festival, curated "Image Journeys: The Conquest of World as Picture" an exhibition focusing on a critical viewing of popular Indian imagery at the turn of the twentieth century in the construction of its social and national identities.

Pramod Kumar KG

Pramod Kumar KG

Pramod Kumar KG, curator for Craft in the 2019 edition of Serendipity Arts Festival, curated "Weftscapes: Jamdani Across New Horizons" an exhibition focusing on a fresh approach to the creation and making of Jamdani fabrics, both in its weaving, choice of raw materials, colour, patterns, designs and the end product—a finished garment.