Shweta Bhattad

Shweta Bhattad is a mother, farmer, visual artist, and performer. Her artistic practice revolves around themes of land, ecology, the female body, conscious living, and collective work. She is a founding member of Gram Art Project, a collective of artists, farmers, farm laborers, women, and youth who integrate socially engaged art into their daily lives. Together, they cultivate 16 acres using agroecological practices, fostering alternative knowledge, innovative methods, and sustainable entrepreneurship. Through her work, Shweta explores the intersections of art, agriculture, and activism, using creativity as a tool for dialogue, empowerment, and reimagining our relationship with land and community.

Shweta Bhattad © Nachiket Guttikar & Deeksha Ketkar | Goethe-Institut Pune

Foraging Apron

This foraging apron is designed to be both functional and symbolic—a companion for gathering nature’s offerings. Handcrafted from naturally dyed, handwoven fabric made from indigenous cotton, it is created in Gram Art Project’s natural dyeing and stitching studio, with the Cotton Stainers and Dhimar community of our village. More than just an apron, it carries foraged seeds, plant fibres, feathers, traces of biodiversity, and objects of daily life. It holds creative expressions, ideas, and inspirations born from the land. Woven into its fabric are stories—of soil, sustenance, and survival—connecting the act of foraging to the larger narrative of land and laws.

Shweta Bhattad

Foraging Apron

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