Bhavna Mehta

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Bhavna Mehta works with paper—cutting and embroidering it to tell stories that combine figurative imagery with botanical motifs, text, and shadows. Using paper as skin and thread to connect and mend, using cutting and sewing to talk about exposing and hiding, she makes work about relating and remembering. Mehta has exhibited widely in San Diego and Southern California. She is the recipient of the Artists Activating Communities grant from the California Arts Council (2017, 2019) and the Creative Catalyst grant from The San Diego Foundation (2015). She has won multiple awards in juried exhibitions and she was one of the San Diego Art Prize emerging artist winners. She collaborates with artists making public art, using paper as a design medium. She has engineering degrees from both India and the United States and worked as a software engineer for many years before turning to art. Mehta has taught paper cutting and sculpture for San Diego Book Arts, Penland School of Craft, San Francisco Center for the Book, and Women's Studio Workshop.

For the Fall 2022 Session, Bhavna is teaching the following class: