Deevara Chittara : the Artform, the People, their Culture

GEETHA BHAT

Founder - CFRIA, Research Lead

Geetha Bhat, the founder of Centre for Revival of Indigenous Arts, is a multifaceted artist, educator, and cultural ambassador with a diverse background in traditional arts, including Origami, Ikebana, and Chittara folk art. She has been promoting numerous Indian and international artists, over the past 40 years. Geetha has presented research papers at various prestigious international conferences and has exhibited chittara murals in elite institutions and public spaces. She has been involved with Indo-Japanese art and culture since the 1970s, and continues as the Program Director at Indo-Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IJCCI), Karnataka. She received special honours at the Attendance Annual Awards 2024, for her long-standing work promoting crafts and chittara. 

SMITHA TUMULURU

Photography, Visual Narrative & Writing

Smitha is a documentary photographer-writer, specializing in research-based visual narratives that focus on rural communities, exploring livelihoods, gender, art, and culture. Since 2017, she has been documenting Tamil Nadu’s Irular tribe, publishing a series of feature stories on People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). She won the 2024 Feature of the Year award at the Rainbow Lit Fest  – Queer & Inclusive, for her impactful storytelling. Smitha collaborates with social and development organizations on visual projects and human interest stories. With a background in the development sector, she blends photography, research and writing to bring depth to narratives of underrepresented communities. In 2021, she founded Photokari, an online platform offering Fine Art prints of photographs from her collections. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Singapore, Malaysia and New York.

Production: Center for Revival of Indigenous Art (CFRIA)

Publisher: Prism Books Pvt.Ltd

First Edition: 30 April 2025

Language: ‎English

Hardcover: ‎200 pages, Section-stitched

ISBN-10:‎ 8119355644

ISBN-13:  978-8119355648

Item Weight: ‎2 kg

Dimensions: ‎13”x 9”x 1.2” (34.2cm x 24 cm x  3 cm)

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