Studio Kuumba
Co-created with Folk Artists
Celebrating and Reinventing Folk Art
24/09/2023
Thank you for all your love on our first collaboration with the Warli community.
We are now a family of 48 Warlis — an inspiring bunch of emerging and experienced artists. Over the course of 3 workshops, we have added 300 unique Warli motifs and themes to our folk art library.
We set out to reimagine the stories told through the art form while retaining the Warli community’s traditions and culture. We’ve learned so much on the way, and we can’t wait to showcase the unseen talent of these communities.
TATTVA, our first collection of shirts, is almost down to its last few pieces. If you want to explore the world of Warli, get yourself a shirt on our website (or gift it to a folk art enthusiast you know).
22/05/2023
A day on field with our collaborators and founder !
All our lovely design outcomes are a result of two-way dialogues, feedback sessions transparent discussions and chuckles with the artists!
It’s one of the things we love doing the most!
The peaceful locations are an added bonus ☀️
13/05/2023
We all want to look and feel great about our clothes, and that should include feeling great about knowing under what conditions they were made. The well-being of the people involved and the environment are just as valuable, don't you think?
Conscious fashion encourages a more socially and environmentally responsible way of producing and consuming apparel and accessories.
13/05/2023
Meet the amazing Warli Artists who collaborated with us on the KUUMBA x WARLI TATTVA Collection ☀️
Each artist has their own uniqueness and style which has reflected beautifully in the collection!
Shop the collection @ www.studiokuumba.com
12/05/2023
Air 💨
Feel easy breezy this summer!
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Warli art beautifully illustrates what they see.
With this topic we explored illustrating Air - something you don’t see. Challenging in the beginning, through our workshop the artist started by illustrating a dandelion disturbed by air and eventually illustrated the invisible Air so effortlessly!
12/05/2023
Water 🌊
Warli Art and a Graphic shirt - A pair that perfectly complements!
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Since the Warli community resides on the coastal belt, a lot of their daily activities are around or in water like fishing. For this artefact - We decided to zoom in into the sea-life illustrations that the Warli artists already do and explore more ways to represent it. The outcome was so beautiful and intricate showcasing the endless possibilities in Warli art.
12/05/2023
Space 🌙☀️
Wear the sun moon & stars and sparkle away!
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Almost all of Warli Paintings have a Sun and Moon on the top two corners of each painting. They symbolise balance while also showing respect to the elements that give us our day and night.
Our space shirt takes the Warli depiction of the sky to the next level with different mesmerising forms of the Sun, Moon and Stars!
12/05/2023
FIRE 🔥
Funky yet Classy, this shirt is a head turner!
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This one has a special Warli artwork from a senior Warli artist Shantaram Ghorkhana ji.
Warli art does already illustrate fire but its usually small in soze and coloured solid. This illustration was an outcome of our collaboration to explore more intricate and blazing ways of depicting fire Warli style.
12/05/2023
EARTH 🌳
Perfect for your summer vacays ☀️
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This Kuumba artefact has local flora illustrations by 8 talented Warli artists.
Warli art is known to depict nature in the most beautiful ways. We took it a notch ahead in our workshops and collected local flora that hasn’t been illustrated in Warli so far. This is truly a unique artefact - fresh Warli art!
We’re Live !!
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GO SHOP our lovely Warli artefacts✨
The KUUMBA x WARLI collection is now out on our website
Space • आकाश
Kuumba x Warli • Tattva
A sneak peak of the space element ☀️ 🌙
21/04/2023
While the Warli community’s strongest presence is in Maharashtra, they are also present in parts of Gujarat and Diu Daman.
📣 Delighted to announce that Warli Art is the first tribal art form that Studio Kuumba collaborating with!
We’ve had an amazing time co-creating with the Warli artists and are super excited to share it with you all very soon
Before we start rolling out - Here’s a little introduction to what Studio Kuumba is working towards ✨
Himani More
12/04/2023
Why (the slowly fading) traditional art forms need to be treasured, encouraged and taken care of more so now than ever !
11/04/2023
A glimpse of what’s coming soon! ⛅️
What is Folk, Tribal or Traditional Art?
We’ve all always heard of these terms but do they all mean the same?
Who practices these art forms and why? Where are they practiced?
Stay tuned…!
Curating treasures from the world of folk and tribal art
Coming to you very soon!
Music - Band at a Warli wedding
Hello from Studio Kuumba!
So happy to finally share that we have embarked on an exciting journey of sharing our learnings, insights and bring you treasures from the world of traditional art.
We've been working hard behind the scenes on the ground with folk and tribal artists and are getting ready to launch soon!
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