About

Straight Circle India is an experimental project-space devoted to art as agency, awareness and awakening.

We aim to build a space where there is inclusivity in art and wellness through art-making.

Through means of exhibitions, publications, collaborative projects, therapeutic practices and creative resources, we explore and engage with the different ways in which acts of creation and care are experienced in our lives. Our work is situated at the intersections of art, psychology, and community.

The central tenet of Straight Circle India is grounded in the understanding that human creativity and artistic expression are integral to our selfhood, social life, the environment, and our spirituality.

 

Riya Arora - the founder, is building Straight Circle India as an inquiry into realms of empathy, art and collective possibility. She is a community psychologist, arts-based counselling therapist and artist based in Punjab, india.

Riya graduated from Jesus and Mary college, University of Delhi with a B.A.(Hons) in Sociology (2022), before she went on to the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences, where she completed a M.Sc. in Applied Community Psychology (2024). Always deeply interested in art and its innate connection to our humanness, Riya got certified in arts-based therapy from the Indian Institute of Psychology and Research, Bengaluru University (2023).