acknowledgements and credits

Acknowledgements and credits are due to esteemed institutions and valuable resource persons who have greatly supported, contributed, and shaped the vision, content, and execution of the exhibition.

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)'s mission is to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to solve real-world problems.

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale

The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale activates creative research and practice across disciplines to advance the cultural landscape of our time.

The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale

Thinai Foundation is an independent non-profit research organisation operating on three program lines: Crafts and communities, Arts and Architecture, and other supporting independent and collaborative inquiries. We intend to explore topics by combining critical inspection and creative expression.

THINAI FOUNDATION

DakshinaChitra is an exciting cross cultural living museum of art, architecture, lifestyles, crafts and performing arts of South India. The main mission is to exhibit, promote and preserve aspects of the broader, more inclusive cultures of the states and to bring these arts to the public in a participative, enjoyable and engaging way.

DAKSHINACHITRA

Co-optex is basically engaged in marketing of Handloom fabrics produced in Tamilnadu. Handlooms constitute a priceless asset of Tamilnadu′s rich cultural heritage. These fabrics marketed by Co-optex, represent an aesthetic quality of high order and represent a great social cause. The demands and challenges of the market is responded to by Co-optex with the rich tradition and well honed skills of its weavers.

C0-OPTEX

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