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NEHA MISRA STUDIO

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Beauty is a verb

Neha Misra is an award-winning contemporary eco-folk visual artist, poet, and climate justice advocate with a deep belief in the power of human (re) imagination to create new realities. 

Neha was born and raised in New Delhi, India. As a first-generation immigrant to the United States, a solar-powered poetic borderline in the Washington D.C. metro region is her beloved adopted home. Neha’s Mother Earth wisdom centered interdisciplinary creative studio builds intertwined bridges between individual, collectiveplanetary healing and justice.  Her regenerative art practice has roots in the diverse eco-folk traditions, mythology, ancient knowledge, and colorful vibrancy of her Indian heritage. Her immigrant experience has been a catalyst for rediscovering and re-claiming this sacred tapestry. Neha’s education in Physics is the foundation for the mosaic of her work that explores the intersection of worlds - physical and metaphysical, complex and simple, old and new

  

Neha's paintings bring out an enchantment with the timeless wisdom, magic, and resilience of nature. Threads of reverence and concern for our relationship with Mother Earth run through her embodied practice. She combines this with an interest in neuroscience to balance our left brain dominated modern world, in wholeness, with the right brain - our spiritual and creative connection with the world within and without. A color therapy explorer, Neha lives for the nano seconds when a viewer looking at her art gasps with visceral joy,"Oh! the colors!"

Neha describes her poetry as a passage of finding words for the wordless, a self-revelation, and an instrument of co-liberation. As poetry emerges from private spheres to communal life, Neha believes it is a gift to renew, to connect, and to move the spirit.

Neha is recognized globally for her intersectional climate justice work. She serves as the inaugural Global Ambassador of Remote Energy which is making solar livelihoods more inclusive for people of color, especially women. She co-founded Solar Sister to support transformational women power to generate solar power in off-grid communities across East and West Africa. Neha has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, Forbes, Ms. Magazine, and Mothers of Invention. She has been honored as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and as a Regenerative Artivist with the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual's Design Science Studio. Neha is a 2023-25 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow, and a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis — an initiative of the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication to change who writes history. She is a recipient of Nootana Washington DC’s 2024 “Preronadayani/Inspiration Giver” Distinguished Creative Leadership Award. 

 

Neha seeks to live in solidarity with those committed to building justsustainable, and soulful ways

of inhabiting our shared tiny blue planet.  

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"If change were a piece of art,
I will make a start..."

Neha Misra

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