Artist Writings

Let’s improve your portraits: now is the time.

Art + Practice

May 6 • Pragati Gunasekar

April 2026

She Turned Her Suffering Into Art

On Frida Kahlo, painting through pain, and what it means to make yourself the canvas.

Apr 11 • Pragati Gunasekar

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March 2026

Importance of a sketchbook

A private laboratory for visual thinking

Mar 11 • Pragati Gunasekar

February 2026

Art & Tech @NYC Google Hackathon

On friction, attention, and why museums need quieter technology

Feb 28 • Pragati Gunasekar

Celebrating a Milestone

Official collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

Feb 18 • Pragati Gunasekar

Seeing Ruth Asawa as an Electrical Engineer

On Wire, Systems, and the Quiet Precision of Ruth Asawa

Feb 1 • Pragati Gunasekar

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January 2026

It sounds Greek or Latin, not Tamizh. Why?

Language history tells a different story

Jan 9 • Pragati Gunasekar

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Artistic Illiteracy

Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: The Cultural Cost of Misreading Sacred Art

Jan 3 • Pragati Gunasekar

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December 2025

Leadership beyond motherhood

Societies that reduce women to wombs

Dec 8, 2025 • Pragati Gunasekar

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November 2025

Field Research in Mahabalipuram

Two Weeks Mentorship in Traditional Stone Carving

Nov 8, 2025 • Pragati Gunasekar

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August 2025

From Chennai to New York

Teaching Art & Culture at NYAA

Aug 17, 2025 • Pragati Gunasekar

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July 2025

Whiteness Is a Deal, Not a Birthright

My take on Noel Ignatiev’s How the Irish Became White (1995)

Jul 14, 2025 • Pragati Gunasekar