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Center for Embodied Knowledge in its continuous engagement with Indian Knowledge Systems , after supporting three teams and coalitions with crafts and Kalamakari is now supporting two young individuals, who we will call The CEK Co-Travelers, Dheeraj Annappureddy and Mayank Ale. CEK is supporting Dheeraj and Mayank for 3 months, with a CEK fellowship and covering costs of… Continue reading Center for Embodied Knowledge support for Local Building Traditions & Sustainable Lifestyle Workshops

I call this collaboration between the one and only Peter Lee, Singapore collector and scholar of Indian and #ASEAN textiles, and a master #Kalamkari painter Niranjan, who has an iconic lineage, as son of the illustrious Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty, to do a workshop sharing and doing together the purest processes of Kalamkari, along with sharing with real textile pieces,… Continue reading Chintz to Prints : Patron X Collector

Center for Embodied Knowledge is pleased to announce a long term collaboration with National and State awarded “Shilpguru” Sri K. Siva Prasad Reddy for construction of a studio in the village of Tangaturu, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh and to nourish a new generation of Kalamkari artists. The studio will be named ‘CEK Kalamkari Gurukulam’. Through the… Continue reading CEK Kalamkari Gurukulam

Center for Embodied Knowledge is pleased to announce a collaboration with Antati, a Singapore based museum and historical research consultancy for organising a Chintz to Prints workshop. Through this collaboration CEK seeks to bridge the understanding between Asian cultures and promote the interpretation of Indian craft traditions with an accurate lens. A grant of 2000… Continue reading Chintz to Prints: Collaboration with Antāti

Center for Embodied Knowledge is pleased to announce a collaboration and a grant of Rs 25 lacs to The Handloom Futures Trust (HFT), Hyderabad. About the Collaboration: CEK is announcing its collaboration for the next 12 months with HFT, co-founded by Annapurna Mamidipudi, as the lead in our mutual effort. As a first step with… Continue reading CEK Announces a Grant & Collaboration with The Handloom Futures Trust

We seek, seeking fellow travellers to nurture crafts of hand and voice, love and effort, in tune with nature, traditions,  living and lost,  in search of languages, those that are silent not spoken, languages of action, embodied. We are pleased to announce the launch of Center for Embodied Knowledge (CEK). Founded by Hari, Sunny Narang… Continue reading Launch of Center for Embodied Knowledge