Ramya Ravisankar is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator. Her artmaking, academic, and educational 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 influenced by the intersections (interferences) of identity and place. Ravisankar earned a Ph.D. in Arts Administration, Education and Policy, with a focus on Art Education theory, from Ohio State University. Her dissertation investigates artmaking practice as informed and expanded through new materialist/posthuman theories. Ravisankar holds 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.
Research interests include entanglement, embodiment, ethnobotany, decoloniality, inclusive/decolonial practices, indigenous/folk knowledges, new materialism, Eastern philosophies/languages/linguistics, and rethinking art practice as a site through which you can conduct research, generate knowledge, and generate insights through artmaking.
Research interests include entanglement, embodiment, ethnobotany, decoloniality, inclusive/decolonial practices, indigenous/folk knowledges, new materialism, Eastern philosophies/languages/linguistics, and rethinking art practice as a site through which you can conduct research, generate knowledge, and generate insights through artmaking.