The A4A × TAAS (The Alternative Art School) Fellowship supports young writer-curators at a formative stage of practice, offering mentorship, access to critical conversations, and opportunities for professional development. Conceived as a bridge between emerging curatorial thinking and institutional practice, the fellowship emphasises dialogue, research, and sustained engagement over short-term outcomes.
2025 A4A x TAAS Young Writer/Curator Fellowship
Writer/ Curator Fellowship recipient
Shreya Muley
Shreya Muley is an independent writer and artist living in Goa, India. She experiments with hybrid writing forms, inviting dialogue between textual interpretation and visual perception. Her notebooks house most of her first drafts, ideas, and meaning-making of her psyche in relation to worldly reality. Shreya’s formative years in Indore and brief seasons across several rural towns of Madhya Pradesh nurtured her instincts to observe, reflect and create. In her professional practice, she has explored feature journalism, non-fiction publishing, strategic communications and transmedia storytelling for cultural impact. Her artistic practice is rooted in the interplay between absence and presence; engaging with what is seen and unseen, remembered and forgotten. She enjoys pathfinding, natural symbolism and synchronicity.
Meenakshi Nihalani is a Visual Artist from India. She has received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts Sculpture from Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai. She recently exhibited her installations in Berlin, Germany. The Works are based on research representing the Agrarian Culture and social and psychological impact of British Colonialism on the Farmers emphasizing the Absurdism of politics and power on mankind. She has received the Scholarship Residency by Fundaziun Nairs in Switzerland (2019). She has also received a Scholarship exhibition by the Honorary Indian consulate in Stuttgart in 2018 and 2019. She has attended her Artist residency in Berlin, Netherlands, Zurich, Belgium, and India. She has also received the 2017 Lord Mayo Memorial Award for her sculpture during the Annual exhibition at Sir J.J School of Art. Her Practice involves sculptural forms and Textile Installations depicting ironical glimpses of situations in our society. The artist currently works from Mumbai and Baroda, India.
Meenakshi Nihalani
Art For Art Fellowship 2024-25 recipient
This fellowship supports one outstanding emerging/mid-career artist annually, providing financial support, professional mentorship, and a final exhibition at the Champatree Art Gallery.