Deepen Sharma

Faculty

Deepen Sharma an alumnus of Mod’art International, has been working as a Fashion Illustrator for over 6 years for National and International Designers and Brands such as Anita Dongre, Payal Singhal, French Consulate and many more. With featured work in magazines like Vogue and Verve, Deepen has also worked as a Head Designer for a Jewelry brand and with a strong personal style, has entered the world of Fashion Influencer community.

Lancy D’silva

Faculty

Lancy D’silva has worked with the Italian brand ‘Brioni’ as Manager, made-to-measure and later worked with the brand ‘Camessi’ as Bespoke Consultant. He has been designing and crafting clothes for people since late 90s. He has also conducted masterclasses at DSK Institute and Symbiosis, Pune.

Upasna

Faculty

An Alumni of the prestigious London College of Fashion and School of Fashion Technology, Upasna has earned a BA Honors in Womenswear, specialisation in Pattern Making and Under Graduation in Fashion Technology respectively.

She has received accolades for being a finalist in British Fashion Council Illustration Awards and Nina De York Awards. She established her label SUVAN DESIGN for which she featured her collections at the Scotland Fashion Show and Bangalore Fashion Week. Upasna has featured her designs in exhibitions the world over. Having been a Senior Design Consultant with LIVA Fluid Fashion (Birla Cellulose), her designs have been published in magazines like Business of Fashion, Grazia, Vogue, Papercut, and a multitude of others.
Her endeavour is to enhance the process of design pushing boundaries by encouraging students to explore new ideas and techniques through illustration and Pattern Making, subjects that she is most passionate about.

Believing that learning never stops, especially for a tutor, upgrading skills continuously is essential, hence she is currently pursuing an executive Masters in Illustration from Falmouth University, UK.

Shilpa Soneji Davda

Adjunct Faculty

An international design school alumni specialised in illustration, Shilpa Soneji Davda has to her credit over 2 decades of experience in guiding design aspirants in developing acute hand and digital illustration and rendering skills using multimedia tools. As an academician, having worked in leading institutes of the country, she has developed a unique mode of delivering her lectures that are effective and produce commendable outcomes. Besides academics, she has illustrated children’s storybooks, works as an illustrator for designers and brands and is a portfolio curation expert.

Anushka Jadhav

Faculty

Anushka Jadhav is an Educator and Artist who conducts workshops, talks and teacher-trainings — along with developing curriculum — on Gender and Sexuality in educational institutions around the country.

She majored in Anthropology & Literature from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai, and holds a Master’s in Education from SNDT University. She’s the curriculum in-charge at Whistling Woods International along with being the faculty for Culture Studies.

As an educator focused on gender inclusion, she has been invited to conduct sessions at institutes such as BITS Hyderabad, IIT Mandi, IIITM Gwalior, IIITDM Jabalpur, PESIT Bangalore, Mallya Aditi International, UWC Mahindra among others and have been featured in publications such as Hindustan Times, Homegrown, Scroll, YouthKiAwaaz, LiveMint, TheBetterIndia etc.

In the past, she’s worked on the planning and program-curation of on-ground conferences and conventions on issues of gender and identity, such as Gaysi Family’s Zine Bazaar (in association with Max Mueller Bhavan) and has also co-founded an educational trust aimed at situating gender advocacy within education and bridging the gap between activism and academia.

Tamara P Nedungadi

Visiting Faculty

Tamara P Nedungadi is a Postgraduate in Sociology from Mumbai University. She had an exposure to cinema right from childhood as her father was an eminent Film critic. Her passion for the visual medium got an impetus when she did the Film Appreciation course of FTII in 1986.

After her post-graduation, she joined renowned Film Editor Renu Saluja in 1990. Amongst the films she assisted Renu were films such as ‘Sardar’, ‘Dharavi’ and ‘Maya Memsaab.’ She decided to expand her horizons and became an assistant director to renowned filmmakers Ashutosh Gowarikar and Kundan Shah.

In the Mid 1990’s she started her independent career as an online editor (vision mixer) for multi camera TV Shows. Some of the shows she edited were ‘Swabhimaan’, ‘Farz’ and ‘Nyay’. She got her first break as a Director for a TV show titled ‘Waaris’ in 1999. She then went on to direct many shows over the next 12 years. Some of the shows she directed were, ‘Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi’, ‘Kittie Party’, ‘Remix’.

Apart from her career as a Director and Editor, she is trained in Oddissi dance form under Guru Jhelum Paranjpe. She has performed in dance ballets and shows, choreographed by dancers like, Astad Deboo and Illeana Chirasti.

She has also been part of Satyadev Dubey and Sunil Shanbag’s plays like ‘Andha Yug’ and ‘Pratibimb’. Her association with these stalwarts helped her understand Stagecraft and nuances of speech and performance.