Noted professor Archana Shastri honoured with ‘design guru’ title
NATIONAL DESIGN GURU DAY
CHANDIGARH: The World University of Design (WUD) in Sonepat on Wednesday commemorated the national design guru day and honoured noted professor Archana Shastri with the title of ‘design guru’.
With wide-ranging contributions in the field of design, Prof Shastri has helped in grooming many generations of young designers and artists as a professor in NIFT and later as principal of Government College of Art, Chandigarh and head of department ( Kaladarsana ) at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, according to a WUD statement. Prof Shatri’s last assignment was as director, Mekong Ganga Cooperation Asian Textile Museum in Siem
Reap, Cambodia.
Dr Sanjay Gupta, WUD vice- chancellor, said Prof Shastri is a name who in her vast career has chiselled out essential nuances in the field of design.