Malavika Rao

Malavika Rao (she/they) is a fibre artist, ceramicist, painter, writer, and teacher living and working in Los Angeles. In her work, Malavika is drawn to craft as it grants them the power to travel through time. The knowledge of craft is typically passed through interpersonal relationships, generally between women, and Malavika believes that these relationships are inextricably linked to craft. These relationships are the intertwining threads of what sustains the practice of love. Through time travel, Malavika is able to communicate with the past to further understand it, and envision multiple futures. In both her art and her teaching, Malavika aims to create new worlds at the intersections of these pasts and futures, for herself and for her community, in the hopes that these spaces can be powerful realms of healing, resistance, and love.