Our winter "Storytelling" trimester is just around the corner, and we are planning some imaginative studios where NuVu students will explore and create stories through music, film, dance, painting and technology. We are looking forward to some amazing coaches who will be joining us at NuVu for the winter session, including a leading musical instrument robotisict, a Grammy-winning music producer, as well as two hosts (and MIT Media Lab PhDs) from the Discovery Channel. One of our coaches for the Storytelling trimester will be Raghava KK. I first heard of Raghava KK after watching his TED Talk while high up in the clouds on-board my flight from San Francisco to Boston. The talk, entitled "Five Lives of an Artist," moved me to tears. Raghava's stories reminded me of the wonderfully emotional aspects of our lives that become intertwined within our art from the moment we use our hands to create a piece, whether as sketch, painting or collage. Raghava's stories capture in touching honesty his journey with art as it propelled him to new places and how his experiences, in turn, drove his multiple reincarnations as an artist. Raghava KK is a self-taught artist, born in Bangalore, India, whose reincarnations as an artist led him from cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and son to father. His work has spanned various genres including painting, sculpture, installation, film, cartooning and performance. Through each medium, Raghava's work has conveyed expressively his opinions on identity, conformity, gender, and celebrity. In his TED Talk, Raghava speaks frankly about the public's reaction that sits at the intersection of his work and opinions, and his own life course that remains directed within this air of acceptance and rejection. Raghava started his career in 1997, originally as a cartoonist with Indian national newspapers such as The Asian Age, The Indian Express, and The Times of India in Bangalore. Over the next 10 years, Raghava would reinvent himself to use several different mediums. In his reinvention after cartooning, Raghava went on to teach himself how to paint and began creating large watercolor on canvas paintings using his hands and feet. His shows cover a global audience in galleries and performance spaces around the world. His current projects continue to span across media. Among his latest published work is the childrens book A New Friend for Rudra. We look forward to having Raghava at NuVu this coming Winter!