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Crazy #rickshaw ride #durgapuja  #OUROWNVOICES #DIVERSESTORIES #BFKRIves #SHUBHOBIJOYA #Watercolor #GOUACHE #ILLUSTRATION 

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GRATEFUL FOR THE AGITPROP RESIDENCY AT THE COMPOUND GALLERY

I am grateful to the Compound Gallery for offering me a spot in their Agitprop Residency program

What is Agitprop? Its Printing for a cause. Thinking. Making. Disseminating. 1 individual, 1 month, 100 Prints.

I will be printing the United Faces of America as a 3-color screenprint over the next month.

The Compound Gallery is funding this Residency out of its own funding to help artist create art with traditional printmaking techniques (e.g., letterpress, silkscreen, etching, relief, photopolymer plates) and building a bridge between printmaking’s historic relationship to generating social/cultural/political awareness and contemporary social media/online forums.

The Compound gallery is funding this residency out of their own pockets.  If you want to support what they do by either donating ink, paper, supplies, or monetary funds, you can do so by clicking HERE.  They are fiscally sponsored via Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions for the purposes of The Compound Gallery are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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Summer is almost over, as are the monsoons. The mangoes are most definitely gone, but here I am, still trying to snag one from the tree in the backyard of my childhood. There is nothing more delicious than a mango in the middle of the blistering heat of an Indian June. If this sweet sweet national fruit of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh can't bring us together, I don't know what can. Happy 70th birthday to India.

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My most potent memory of #vasantpanchami. Me, up on a #guava tree, watching the menfolk fry #luchis. Yummy. #watercolor #Ink http://wp.me/p90vK-16Y

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Ban Momos? Nooooo!!! Almost everyone in my architecture school adored momos. We relished it often. Not satisfied with its…

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An Arranged Marriage, A Lifetime of Love. #arrangedmarriage #watercolors #cancer #death #parents http://wp.me/p90vK-Rd

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Left to their own devices everyday would be #cakeday for these two #bandicoots. Experiment#3 in watercolors for my husband’s 45th #birthday. And, no, her hair didn’t catch fire. Its all the way down to her back now. : #Art #Illustration #Pencil #TracingPaper #Watercolors

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Support Science. Protect the Earth

Support Science. Protect the Earth

Aditi Raychoudhury. Yes on Trees (for Vote the Environment Campaign for Patagonia). 2014. Adobe Illustrator. I made this poster a few years ago as part of Patagonia’s Vote the Environment campaign. 30% of profits from sales will go towards supporting the project, 30% to HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy,…

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Shubho Noboborsho

Aditi Raychoudhury. Shubho Noboborsho. 2017. Gouache and gel pens on paper. This is my memory of Poila Boishaakh (1st day of the month Boishaakh). As always, celebrated with somethig sweet – the more of it, the better. This is a nascent attempt at gouache. Hopefully, this skills with get better with practice.

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Super Devils in Disguise Don't be fooled by them.

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Stuck on Vasant Panchami (वसन्त पञ्चमी । বসন্ত পঞ্চমী ।)

Stuck on Vasant Panchami (वसन्त पञ्चमी । বসন্ত পঞ্চমী ।)

Yippee! The air is clear and crisp, and the skies are the closest they ever get to a California blue in the tropics. Its early February. We are all dressed in yellow. No books, no homework, no dance, or anything that bears any resemblance to learning.  It is Vasant Panchami (the 5th day of Spring). We have gleefully surrendered all our pencils, pens, paints, brushes, books, instruments and any…

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Women Who Draw

Aditi Raychoudhury. CA Winter. 2017. Adobe Illustrator. Shocked by the under-representation of women and members of the LGBTQ community in the world of illustration,  Wendy MacNaughton and Julia Rothman created Women Who Draw as an open directory of female* professional illustrators. I joined it today, and will be participating in their first group project documenting the 2017 Women’s March on…

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Resist

Aditi Raychoudhury. The United Faces of America. 2016. Adobe Illustrator.   I made this image as part of a call for submissions by Resist! magazine for “the theme of political resistance to the forces of intolerance.” My main message in this being that teh more we come together, the stronger we become. When we band together irrespective of our varied races, religions and sexual orientation, we…

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The Bomb and The General V2.2009

Aditi Raychoudhury. Bushes. 2009. 6″ x 4″. Adobe Illustrator CS. The original ‘The Bomb and the General’ is a delightfully optimistic, anti-war children’s book – written by Umberto Eco (The Name of The Rose), and brilliantly illustrated by Eugenio Carmi. It was published in 1989 – In Italian: By Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A.; and In English: By Harcourt Brace…

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My poster at the same show with art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti sold for 350$. Double Gulp!

My poster at the same show with art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti sold for 350$. Double Gulp!

My screen-printed poster the was up for auction at the Art Auction With Impact along with work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti show this past Saturday (22nd October, 2016) in San Francisco sold for 350$. You can have it for 30$ :) (plus shipping). I can give you a shipping discount if you are local.

Aditi Raychoudhury. Tree of Life. 2014. Limited Edition Screenprint.