Writing & speaking

Books, articles and talks

My writing asks how communities create and interpret culture through art, and how art education can respond to migration, colonization and difference.

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Books and editing

  • 2023Sharma, M., & Alexander, A. (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education. Routledge.
  • 2018Garber, E., Hochtritt, L., & Sharma, M. (Eds.). Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change. Routledge.
  • 2021–24Editor (with co-editors), Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, vols. 41–43. vol. 43

Selected articles and chapters

  • 2026“Reorienting Orientalism: Resistance and response in contemporary art and education” (with A. K. Kinsizer). Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 42(2). doi
  • 2025“Critical Connections in Relational Universalities in Art Education.” Journal of Art and Design Education Pakistan.
  • 2023“Patriotism and Nationalism: Sounds of Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary India.” In Global Media Arts Education. Palgrave Macmillan. doi
  • 2023“Desi/Pardesi/Videshi: International (Re)locations in a Time of Nationalism.” In Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators. Routledge.
  • 2022“The Water and the Bridge: Dilemmas of In-betweenness.” In A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back. University of Arizona Press. doi
  • 2021“Exploring Craft Traditions of India: Heritage Crafts as a Curricular Gateway for Interdisciplinary Learning” (with A. Thatte). Art Education. doi
  • 2021“Halla bol! Visual(izing) responses to violence against women in contemporary India.” In Lobby Activism: Feminism(s) + Art Education. NAEA.
  • 2016“Activating Art Education Learning by Mapping Community Cultures.” In Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement. IGI Global. doi
  • 2015“Mythical Beings and Becoming: Emerging Identities of Art Educators in India.” Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 32.

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Talks

  • 2026“Privileged but Not Powerless: Heritage, Hospitality, and the Art of Being Heard.” J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. Award Lecture, NAEA Committee on Multiethnic Concerns. Add delivery date and link.
  • 2025“A Dialogue on Our Journeys to Embody the Spirit and Practice of Decolonization” (with A. Alexander and R. Bourgault). InSEA World Congress, Olomouc.
  • 2025“Discursive Shifts: The Janus-face of Oppressive Histories and Aesthetic Beauty in Turkish and Indo-Saracenic Architecture” (with A. Kinsizer). InSEA World Congress, Olomouc.
  • 2025“ReOrienting Orientalism” (with A. Kinsizer). NAEA Convention, Louisville.
  • 2019“Speaking for and of Others: Art of Class in Contemporary India.” Invited public lecture, University of Arizona Museum of Art.
  • 2016“Introducing South Asia through art and visual culture.” Invited lecture as visiting scholar, Aalto University, Helsinki.

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