Feb 14, 2018 | Know Your Fabric, Reflections
About ‘Weaving Stories’ Aaron Sinift (b ’66) is an artist living and working in Beacon, NY. He has a BFA in painting from University of Iowa (96′) and an MFA from Boston University. He instigated the 5 Year Plan project 5 Year Plan.org to...
Feb 5, 2018 | Know Your Fabric, Reflections
About ‘Weaving Stories’ Aaron Sinift (b ’66) is an artist living and working in Beacon, NY. He has a BFA in painting from the University of Iowa (96′) and an MFA from Boston University. He instigated the 5 Year Plan project 5 Year Plan.org to...
Jan 25, 2018 | Know Your Fabric, Reflections
About ‘Weaving Stories’ Aaron Sinift (b. ’66) is an artist living and working in Beacon, NY. He has a BFA in painting from the University of Iowa (96′) and an MFA from Boston University. He instigated the 5 Year Plan Project 5 Year Plan.org to...
Sep 19, 2017 | Community, Know Your Fabric
Documentaries: A Medium for Relating For Susanta documentaries are a medium for connecting and relating. He says it eloquently in a Facebook Post, “Documentaries connect me with the people…with the soil…and with myself…with old memories…...
Jul 20, 2017 | Community, Know Your Fabric
Madras Cafe – the beginnings Twenty five odd years ago Chris and Bryan set out in an old bus to sell Chai at WOMAD. That early humble beginning of Madras Cafe might have reminded them of their time in deep rural India in the seventies. Sixties and Seventies were...
Jul 17, 2017 | Know Your Fabric
Reviving khadi was not an easy task. It did not happen with a bang. It required focus and perseverance. Each stage was a learning experience. Experience of the first few years of Gandhi’s efforts to set up a khadi unit are described in three short chapters of...
