Sugandha Gupta is an inclusive textile designer, maker and educator who creates sensory textiles that include a wider audience through the engagement of multiple senses. She focuses on creative exploration and hands-on textile processes to transform materials and evoke different tactile, olfactory, auditory, and visual sensations. Her teaching philosophy as an art and design educator is to promote rigorous material exploration, representation, reflective practice, and research based inquiry. Gupta also has an active disability advocacy practice educating schools, colleges and museums about disabilities as opportunities and strengths. Gupta maintains an active artistic practice by participating in craft shows and exhibitions and has won prestigious awards such as, Dorthy Waxman Textile prize and International Design Award (silver).