Artist Tedi Permadi

Join us online for a talk about the paper museum's newest exhibit, Bark Rhythms: Contemporary Innovations and Ancestral Traditions. This exhibit features artists from around the world who are practicing and innovating in the historic traditions of making bark paper and barkcloth. The talk features artists Sheila Nakitende and Tedi Permadi. 

Sheila Nakitende will join us from Uganda. She is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Uganda Kampala. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Fine Art and Design from Makerere University in 2005.

Nakitende experimented with painting before exploring installation, performance and sculpture. Her artistic experience ranges from concept development, product and graphics design to gallery curatorial practice, coordinating arts projects, participating in local and international art workshops, residencies and exhibitions.

Indonesian artist Tedi Permadi is on the Teaching staff at the Indonesian Language and Literature Study Program, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Indonesian Education University. He completed undergraduate educationin Regional Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Padjadjaran University;  and has a Masters in Literature, Major Studies in Philology at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Padjadjaran University; and a PhD in Literature, Major Studies in Philology at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Padjadjaran University. Permadi actively conducts research and service in the fields of manuscripts, preservation and conservation of written traditions, and revitalization of oral traditions. In addition, he was certified as a Pratama Cultural Heritage Expert for 2019-2022 and a Pratama Oral Tradition Preservation Worker for 2022-2025. He has been active in revitalizing Daluang as a traditional Indonesian paper since 1998. 

 

Image of Sheila Nakitende