Anita Rau Badami draws the visual images for her textual and painted works of human emotions. As a visual artist, writer, and critic, she has won national and international acclaim for her moving, but often humorous, portrayals of family life in Canada and India. Anita is the author of Tamarind Mem (1996), The Hero’s Walk (2001), Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2006), and Tell it to the Trees (2012). She has won the Commonwealth Best Book Prize for Hero’s Walk and the Marian Engel Award for the body of work she has produced.

Photo by Dipti Gupta

Jaswant Guzder’s works span the long journey of this third generation South Asian Canadian as she remaps identities and exists between worlds. For many years, Jaswant’s visual art has been exhibited in Montreal and galleries in Victoria, London, New York, Rome, and India. She has designed numerous book covers and contributed to websites of cultural psychiatry in the US, the World Psychiatric Association, and McGill University. This summer, she will give a workshop on creating visual books at McGill’s Visual Arts Centre. She writes long fan books on the themes of migration and free association conversations joined together from dismantled books. These books are partly inspired by her therapeutic work through which she listens for continuity in narrative.

Jayanta Guha, living in Saguenay, is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in photography, poetry, music, and writing. In his artistic expressions, he seeks the intimate connection that exists between life, earth, water, and light, which has also opened the door to his photographic expression. As a visual artist, comparative images form an important part of his exploration where both human and physical environment are juxtaposed. His work has been presented in Canada and abroad.

Photo by Yu Yu