Madeleine St. John
Director
Madeleine St. John made her home in Kolkata in early 2020 when she moved to the city to volunteer and study with a local nonprofit pioneering Dance Movement Therapy for survivors of gender-based violence. Since then, Madeleine has initiated and completed several nonprofit projects and programmes in Kolkata at the intersection of arts, human development, and community care. With an education and professional foundations spanning the behavioral sciences, interculturalism, development, the arts, and global health, Madeleine’s vocational expressions take an interest in conducting humanitarian work with cultural and interpersonal sensitivity — employing the senses and aesthetics themselves as vital tools for creatively developing lives, communities, and societies we are excited to inhabit. As the Director of TRI Art & Culture, Madeleine applies her professional acumen to develop and execute an institutional vision that draws on the unique cultural heritage of Kolkata alongside its contemporary possibilities to cultivate connection, community, and social sensitivity through creativity.
Pavini Kaur Sukarchakia
Assistant Curator & Program Manager
Curator, writer, cultural content strategist, and ceramist in training, Pavini is the Assistant Curator & Program Manager at TRI Art & Culture. Since its inception, Pavini has worked closely with TRI’s founders to shape its vision as a reimagined cultural hub for Kolkata. In her current role, she develops exhibition-based community programs and collaborates with curatorial partners to advance TRI’s mission. With experience in design, cultural research and arts-based community programming, Pavini’s interdisciplinary practice focuses on contextualizing histories of art, culture, and social phenomena through research, visual communication and playful exhibition design. She believes in the transformative intersection of art and design as a format to deepen audience engagement and cultivate meaningful and impactful community interaction. Affectionately known as Muskan, she was a Curatorial Fellow (‘24-25) at the Curatorial Intensive South Asia by Khoj Studios and a graduate of the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. In her free time, she hoards exhibition dossiers, listens to cultural podcasts, and tries to spend more time outdoors perfecting her handstand.
Anjali Kanoria
Communications Coordinator
Anjali leads communications and marketing at TRI Art & Culture, shaping the organisation’s voice across public relations, social media, content management, creative direction, and brand development. She approaches marketing and communication as a conversation rather than a broadcast, seeking ways to turn ideas, visuals, and narratives into experiences that invite dialogue, spark curiosity, and create meaningful connections. Her journey began in filmmaking as a production designer, moving across music videos and independent cinema before expanding into graphic design, writing, visual direction, and idea-building in creative and advertising spaces across Bangalore and Hyderabad. Born and brought up in Kolkata, the city continues to shape how she observes, listens, and engages with people and culture, informing a practice rooted in collaboration, curiosity, and the belief that communication is most impactful when it is thoughtful, humane, and shared.
Keshab Ray
Community Engagement Associate
From attending events to working in festivals, Keshab’s vocational experience begin in film festivals and programmes, and Kolkata was always at the epicentre of this confluence. At TRI Art & Culture, Keshab works across community engagement, vendor coordination, exhibition and event management, he believes in research, observation, and humane touch to facilitate dialogues and narratives. Usually at the front desk, Keshab is a graduate of the Film Studies programme at Jadavpur University. Off-site, he vouches for good cinema, practices drums, and tries to find some time to revise before his French classes. From viewing the city from a touristy lens to shifting here for academics, Kolkata was, is, and forever will be a wonder for Keshab Ray. He believes Kolkata is a portal which connects the local and the global, where the future, present, and past are all interconnected, and where art is more than a way of life. Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo’s believed that Cinema is a synthesis of six arts. Thus, it became both a theoretical and professional entry point for him to Interdisciplinary Arts and Aesthetics.