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Welcome to "The Truth in This Art." I'm your host, Rob Lee, and I’m thrilled to introduce our next guest: Nikita Yogaraj, an emerging artist, illustrator, and information designer with a background in public health. A Tamil Indian-American woman, her family immigrated from south India to the US when she was 3, and she grew up mostly in Houston, TX. She has been living in (and loving) Baltimore for the past 5 years ever since moving here for graduate school in public health. Her past design work has often been about making public health-related data & concepts accessible to a range of audiences, and her upcoming artistic work aims to explore through portraiture the sense of "place" and how its facets inform one's identity, particularly for brown people from first and second generation immigrant families.
In this episode, we explore:
Join us in this enlightening episode as Nikita uses her art to communicate public health data and explore themes of immigrant identity. She is self-taught and not affiliated with any institution. Nikita discusses the challenges of being an artist, the importance of finding a niche, and the influence of literature and music on her creativity. She also emphasizes the importance of being part of a creative community and supporting fellow artists.
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Original music by Daniel Alexis Music with additional music from Chipzard.
Episode illustration by Alley Kid Art.
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