Tanvi Kulkarni

http://tanvikulkarni.org/  

Tanvi Kulkarni is Indian artist and teaching artist currently based in Minneapolis, MN. She is pursuing Bachelors in Fine Arts degree in Drawing and Painting with Teaching Artist minor. She usually identify herself as painter but her practice also involves paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, ceramics, glass, performance, photography and book making.

Kulkarni aims to create art about belonging and identity. Her goal is to play with the ideas about existence and interaction between mind and reality in her art. She is inspired by landscape artist James Abbott McNeill whistler, Martin Johnson Heade, April Gornik, Gregory Euclide, Antonio Lopez Garcia and Israel Hershberg. Kulkarni has participated in group exhibition at Barnes & Thornbur law offices exhibition and various exhibitions at Minneapolis College of Art. She has worked as teaching artist for the Avivo Art works, Task Unlimited, Simpson Housing, Passage community, Children's residential treatment center Minneapolis based organizations which are working for people with mental illness. She has worked as teaching artist at Unmesh Inamdar Art Academy, India and Art buddies, MN, which runs art programs for children.

Kulkarni intends to share language of art with others through her teaching practice. The healing as a part of art that she wants to focus in future for her teaching practice.