Lakshmi Priya Daniel, has teaching for the past two decades in the Department of Fine Arts, Stella Maris (Autonomous) College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and is currently Associate Professor. She holds a doctorate from the University of Madras with a focus on Gender and art which she approached through the lens of women artists from South India. As a teacher of art her artistic practice often feeds her pedagogical methodologies and has remained one of the ways in which academician-artists like Marcia Neblett, the artist who chose her for this exhibition, and herself have been able to straddle both worlds and remain linked. In many ways this Fulbright artistic collaboration has been the outcome of the strength of collective visions and open dialogues creating bridges and bonds for the future.