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Braids & Threads Podcast
Monica Jahan Bose and Autumn Spears have launched their podcast, engaging in an intergenerational dialogue about culture, heritage, and art. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Ferry Performance
“Girl from the Tidal Village” was a short guerrilla performance (duration 8 minutes) by Monica Jahan Bose in connection with the Works on Water 2025 Triennial on Governors Island, New York. The performance took place on the 2 pm ferry from Manhattan to Governors Island...
Review by Mark Jenkins
Monica Jahan Bose, “Freedom (Blue)” (photo by Mark Jenkins) HANGING CURTAINS MADE FROM SARIS mark the entrance to Gallery Y’s “Take Me to the Water,” a flourish that comes as no surprise. Repurposed saris are among the customary elements in Monica Jahan Bose’s work, which...
WorldPride March & Rally
Even on a day with forecast of rain and extreme heat, so many of us showed up for the WorldPride DC Human Rights Rally & March. The “Weaving Resistance: Storytelling with Saris” team worked hard during WorldPride DC 2025, holding five public workshops, an exhibition...
World Pride DC Project
Storytelling with Saris is thrilled to announce our participation in World Pride DC 2025 and our receipt of a World Pride grant. Link to press release from Capital Pride and World Pride DC 2025. Weaving Resistance: Storytelling with Saris In this moment of human rights...
Rising Tile Mural
Monica Jahan Bose’s first ceramic sari, called “Rising,” was unveiled on March 9, 2025 in the Kalorama Triangle alley adjacent to her studio on the wall of the Miller/Farleys, behind 2015 and 2017 Belmont Rd NW, Washington DC. “Rising” speaks to our connection as humans...
Swimming Images
This public art project was installed for two weeks at Marie Reed Plaza in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC in June 2024. All images © Monica Jahan Bose, 2024. Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Curator: Sarah Tanguy. DCPS Collaboration: Valerie Monfrini....
Smithsonian Summit
We had a wonderful two-day session, “Storytelling with Saris: Climate Art & Poetry Workshop,” on October 18 & 19, 2024, as part of the Smithsonian Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit. This annual conference is organized by the Smithsonian’s Center for Environmental Justice. This year it was...
Swimming in East City Art
Check out this feature by Ian Kibria. Follow this link to read full article. https://storytellingwithsaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/east-city-swimming-.pdf
Climate Hope film
We are thrilled to share the film “Climate Hope,” a collaboration with the Arlington Art Truck to engage with approximately 1000 people in Arlington, Virginia over a two-month period. Participants discussed climate change and wrote and illustrated climate pledges and six-word poems on saris from...
