Subject
South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Art Galleries, Visual Arts, Collectives, SAVAC, Desh Pardesh, oral history
Description
Shelly Bahl was one of the founders of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC). In this interview she discusses her role in several small collectives prior to her full involvement in SAVAC, and how these collectives worked hand in hand with the Desh Pardesh group. She discusses her vision for what SAVAC should be, and how they manifested this in their grant applications. One thing that she was consistently pushing was artistic professionalism.