Award-winning Indian American artist Shanthi Chandrasekar led a Kolam art installation April 24 at the U.S. Capitol. A Kolam is an Indian art form of geometric patterns, used as a welcome sign. (photo ...
A traditional South Indian art form will head toward the U.S. Capitol to welcome President Biden and Vice President Harris, in part as a nod to Harris’s Tamil heritage. Called a kolam, it will form a ...
This Margazhi morning sent me into a state of nostalgia as I drew a simple ezhai kolam in my apartment corridor. It brought back all those fond times and tiny tales told to me by family elders during ...
As thousands from the US and India take part in a digital kolam collage to welcome US President Joe Biden and V-P Kamala Harris, a practitioner shares the history, relevance and benefits of this ...
One enters the exhibit “The Art of Indian Kolam: Traditional Designs and New Media” at Northampton Community College with the impression that nothing can be simpler than a bunch of pictograms composed ...
Even before the crack of dawn, Chennaiites wake up to the musical notes of birds, the winter wind so chilly that it demands a woolen armour to brave the streets that stir to life as the day progresses ...
Nao Yamashita recalls her first attempt at kolam with clarity. “It all started with a small swastika pattern,” says the 42-year-old yoga artiste from Japan, whose love for kolam has been winning ...
Ruben Prakash Anthony Albert putting the finishing touches to the 35ftx25ft 3D kolam in The Gardens Mall. Ruben Prakash Anthony Albert never thought he would be pursuing the art of kolam as a career ...