Yashica Dutt has pointed out similarities between her life’s story and one of the characters in Made in Heaven.
Sadaf Padder
Sadaf Padder is a Brooklyn-based South-Asian-American independent curator, creative coach, and founder of Alpha Arts Alliance, a hyperlocal multidisciplinary collective that pledges a percentage of all proceeds to Grown in Haiti and youth arts initiatives. Her focus is to amplify artists of the global majority, especially women, through connective themes such as mythology and social justice.
Artists Reflect on Dalit History Month
Taking inspiration from Black History Month, Dalit artists and activists fighting for caste abolition celebrate April as a month of resistance and pride.
Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Sadaf Padder presents an exhibition to offer insight into her curatorial process.
How Can a Curator Approach South Asian Futurisms?
How do I acknowledge my shortcomings while reckoning with obscured histories and the exclusion of subaltern narratives in the fine art landscape? A working checklist for curators.
In Search of Inclusive South Asian Futurisms
We have been dangerously siloed for far too long by colonial constructs of race, nation, and time that separate, divide, and deny us our very being.
A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-Caribbean Shakti in Colorado
While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.