Consider enduring imagery and visual specificity in depictions of Hindu deities across geography, time, and artistic media. This workshop invites educators to engage with the exhibition “Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal” and with sculptures of Hindu deities on view in the MFA’s South and Southeast Asian Art gallery. Created for personal or communal worship, these works of devotional art spanning millennia can support teaching about Hindu religious beliefs and practices. Opaque watercolor paintings on view offer additional examples of what artists in South Asia chose to emphasize in centuries past when depicting ritual. The workshop includes admission to the MFA, light refreshments, and discounted parking.

The workshop is part of a “World Religions in Art” program series for the 2025–26 school year, which includes another educator workshop, Teaching with Jewish Ritual Art: Intentional Beauty across Global Communities, on November 6, 2025. Throughout the year, student-focused webinars also take place that feature artworks connected with five major belief systems: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.