Ritwika Misra

Ritwika Misra is an arts professional with background in research, curation and archive management. She has an M.Phil in Social Sciences from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), and MA & BA in Modern History from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interests lie in the history of collecting practice, textiles and arts management. She worked as a project manager and researcher for an international textile exhibition and book project for Weavers Studio Resource Centre, Kolkata, India. She has worked as Assistant Archivist at the visual archives of CSSSC, where she was responsible to acquire, digitise, annotate and catalogue collections and assist in curation of outreach programmes and exhibitions . She was part of the curatorial team for the exhibitions Accessing the Archive (2016), and City in the Archive (2017). She has also worked as a Research Assistant for Objects, Media Practices, Aesthetics, and Politics: Material Histories and Cultural Imaginaries, India 1940-1960, a project of Max Weber Stiftung, to research, document, and archive the history of publicity and advertisement in India. Ritwika was a Fellow at Strengthening U.S. - India Professional Collaboration: 5-day Virtual Workshop on Museum Collections and Visitor Engagement (2021). She is a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and recipient of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, AAMC. She currently works as the Programme Officer, overseeing the Archives and Museums Programme at India Foundation for the Arts, a not-for-profit arts funding organisation in Bangalore, India.