India Currents Artist Collage – Vandana Kumar Collection · South Asians in Silicon Valley

Title: India Currents Artist Collage – Vandana Kumar Collection
Subject: South Asian performing arts; India Currents visual history
Description: A large photographic collage displayed in Vandana Kumar’s living room, featuring iconic South Asian musicians, dancers, vocalists, and performing artists who have appeared in India Currents magazine over the decades. The collage includes images of world-renowned cultural figures such as Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain, A. R. Rahman, and leading exponents of Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kathak, Carnatic music, Hindustani music, and other classical and contemporary forms.

The artwork symbolizes India Currents’ foundational mission since 1987: to highlight South Asian arts and bring the richness of the subcontinent’s cultural traditions to Bay Area audiences. The collage also reflects the personal archives and curatorial sensibility of Vandana Kumar, who helped shape the magazine into one of the most influential South Asian cultural voices in the United States.

This visual artifact documents the deep relationship between the magazine and the artistic communities it served, celebrating decades of coverage, performance reviews, artist interviews, and cultural storytelling across print and digital platforms.
Creator: Curated by Vandana Kumar
Individual photographs sourced over multiple decades from India Currents editorial archives
Date: Collage assembled c. 1990s–2010s; includes artist photographs spanning 1980s–2000s
Format: Photographic collage (JPEG image)

Media: India Currents Artist Collage – Vandana Kumar Collection