Savneet Talwar

Savneet Talwar is an art therapist, fiber artist and educator. Her interdisciplinary practice exists at the intersection of archives, memory, language, feminist politics and questions of resistance. She is interested in the contradictions of feminist and archival matters – what and who is worthy of being a subject of discourse? What colonial narratives and images continue to define matters of the global south?

Her fiber craft practice explores needle methodologies to engage in stitching and mending as an act of slow activism and wellbeing. She has facilitated several community based textiles projects to foster and strengthen community, create social bonds and raise awareness about social and political issues. Talwar is frequently invited as a keynote speaker and workshop leader to facilitate conversations on mending, repair and radical care.

Talwar has presented her scholarly work in the US and international venues, including Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York University; New York, School of the Visual Arts, New York; St.Xaviers, Mumbai, India; Ghent, ECARTE, Belgium; BIEN 2025, Kranj, Slovenia; Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; ECARTE, Madrid, Spain and more. Her weavings and quilts have been exhibited at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; New England Art Center, Boston; Luzbeik Center for the Arts, Michigan City and BIEN 2025, Kranj, Slovenia. She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections and has published numerous articles in national and international journals on ethics of care, intersectional feminism, feminist pedagogy, the politics of crafting, culture and identity, ethics, law and cultural competence, trauma informed art therapy, and more. Talwar served as the Associate Editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association from 2015-2018.