Ed Portal: Nina Bhattacharya, Mending as Care Work
Nina Bhattacharya is a designer, educator, and social worker. As an educator and facilitator, Nina designs learning experiences that nurture and amplify young people’s agency, well-being, and creative power. With her project at ArtLab entitled Mending as Care Work, Nina explored textile mending as an expression of care and a metaphor for how queer, BIPOC, immigrant, and disabled communities stitch together invaluable support networks. Committing to mending is more than an act of sustainability – it categorically rejects that the people, objects, and relationships in our lives are disposable.
This project was in collaboration with the Harvard Ed Portal’s Artists Pipeline Program.