{"id":90,"name":"Hamida Khatri","url":"","description":"Hamida Khatri is a Baltimore-based artist, art educator, art activist, and a creative arts therapist\u2014originally from Pakistan\u2014pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the Founder of 'Creative Therapy Platform', a travel-community project established in 2012, to provide safe healing spaces to underrepresented and disengaged communities. As an artist her work focuses on feminist ideologies creating drawing, sculptures, puppets, illustrations, hand-embroidered portraits, and quilts. Combining her academic learning and interests with socially engaged art she recently piloted a social justice arts-based initiative, '[i am] Project KALI \u2013 Celebration of Womanhood', as part of her residency at the Men and Families Center, Inc. The project aims to focus on the emotional needs and interests of senior women, within East Baltimore, to construct individual and\/or communal, fiber-based artworks that include: puppetry, doll making, wall hangings, and quilts.","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/author\/hamida-khatri\/","slug":"hamida-khatri","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f80ca62fe7532a30e395af174dde9978aa3f11fd84d3342ab7575a73b119e579?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f80ca62fe7532a30e395af174dde9978aa3f11fd84d3342ab7575a73b119e579?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f80ca62fe7532a30e395af174dde9978aa3f11fd84d3342ab7575a73b119e579?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f80ca62fe7532a30e395af174dde9978aa3f11fd84d3342ab7575a73b119e579?s=128&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}