Radha Chandrashekaran is an Interdisciplinary artist from India and United States of America and is currently a visiting faculty for Visual Arts at Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore India. Radha is educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Master of Fine Arts, summa cum laude and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from The Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her contemporary works of art emerges from the 'Feminine and Earth', and women's ritual art from India. Her span of experience and content reaches from the ritual art traditions of Southern India; to traditional and contemporary printmaking to the bark painting of Aboriginal art of Northern Territory Australia. Currently Radha is she is working on an ongoing collaborative performance art project with Jen Rae from Canada, which examines rituals relating to site, memories, experiences and interaction.

Her research project and art is dedicated to all women worldwide, who are struggling to discover and live their own truths. Radha through her art work has worked as a volunteer over the years with nonprofit organizations like Safe Harbor in Madison WI and Peaslee Center in Cincinnati OH, US, whose mission is to spark the creative spirit of abused, homeless and at-risk children and their families to inspire and transform their lives through the power of artistic expression. Her work has been collected in Museums and galleries nationally and internationally.

She has collected a large number of awards for her work from the East Coast of the United States to Hawaii's and in between, as well as winning the prestigious Praga Press International Competition in Canada and a citation in her home of Madras, India. She has participated in a vast number of national and international group shows in America from coast to coast--including a gallery in Soho in New York City, Europe, and Asia.

As she says in her Artist's Statement, "We all have the power to change, to grow and to heal. I feel a responsibility to share my works through volunteering for abused women and children. In our present world, we have been bombarded by the media's relentless assault on our spirituality and the role of art expression in daily lives has the potential for human healing."

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