Ramya Ravisankar is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator. Her artmaking/academic research practice draws on her interest in philosophy, art history, technology, and post-qualitative and experimental artmaking-based research methodologies. Her work is also profoundly informed by the in-betweenness of being an American of South Indian descent. Ravisankar earned a Ph.D. in Arts Administration, Education and Policy with a focused research in Art Education theory from Ohio State University. Her dissertation investigates artmaking practice as informed and expanded through new materialist/posthuman theories. Ravisankar also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her graduate thesis exhibition and research explored mythological subjects and goddess imagery through a feminist perspective. She is an Associate Professor at Columbus College of Art & Design, teaching fine arts, research and writing, design, and art history.
My research interests include entanglement, embodiment, ethnobotany, decoloniality, inclusive/decolonial design practices, indigenous/folk knowledges, new materialism, posthumanism, Eastern philosophies/languages/linguistics, and artmaking practice.
My research interests include entanglement, embodiment, ethnobotany, decoloniality, inclusive/decolonial design practices, indigenous/folk knowledges, new materialism, posthumanism, Eastern philosophies/languages/linguistics, and artmaking practice.