Exploring transgender identity in India with Fulbright artist Carrie Fonder

By: Jennifer Eberbach
Posted: Dec 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM

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Local artist Carrie Fonder is currently in Mumbai, India on a Fulbright Scholarship to study the role of the feminine in Indian art. She is in the midst of creating an artwork out of a rickshaw, a small motorized taxi on three wheels, that comments on transgender men in India. Once the rickshaw sculpture — titled Trans-Co — is complete, she plans to exhibit it in India before shipping it to the United States.

Fonder and three other Fulbright Scholarship artists are planning a group exhibition for Spring 2011, SUPER/POWER: India through the Eyes of Four American Artists, which will feature Fonder's Trans-Co sculpture and other artworks that "challenge the perceived realities and ideals of present-day India from a Western perspective," according to the announcement.