Tilak box from India: Aparna Agrawal

Born in New Delhi, India, Aparna Agrawal moved to Cambridge, MA at the age of nine years old. Agrawal studied sculpture and printmaking at the School of Museum of Fine Arts and has built a career in Fine Arts and Arts Education. Shel resides in Cambridge, MA and teaches art in various schools, museums, and private settings.

Aparna shares the story behind a tilak ritual box from her mother’s collection and how drawn she is to this object as a sculpture that is embedded with her mother’s memory.