Names
The ledger
The record holds the name of everyone who gave.
Nothing on this site was made alone. This page is the single source of truth for who did what; project pages draw from it. If a name is missing or a role is wrong, tell me and it will be corrected — the ledger is only useful if it is true.
Navagunjara Reborn · 2025 – 2026
Odisha artisans
- Rajesh Moharana — dhokra, metal wireframes, tigress leg, human arm
- Ekadashi Barik — cane-wood work, deer leg, lioness torso
- Malli Mani Nayak — sabai weaving, neck and rooster head
- Purnima Nayak — sabai weaving, neck and rooster head
- Pankajini Nayak — sabai weaving, neck and rooster head
- Arsu Marandi — sabai weaving, neck and rooster head
- Geeta Nayak — sabai weaving, neck and rooster head
- Jayanti Nayak — sabai weaving, elephant leg
- Gowri Mahapatra — sabai weaving, elephant leg
- Minu Nayak — sabai weaving, elephant leg
- Bina Pani Patra — sabai weaving, elephant leg
- Basamati Nayak — sabai weaving, elephant leg
- Akshaya Bariki — pattachitra painting
- Jagabandhu Panika — Kotpad textile
- Purnachandra Ghose — Pipili appliqué
- Kotuli Sitaka — Kapdaganda textile
- Adibari Sisha — Ringa textile
- Kalasastra Foundation — cane workshop, Odisha
Co-artists, design, and India operations
- Richa Maheshwari — co-artist, 2025; artisan networks and fabrication logistics
- Bishweshwar Das — photogrammetry capture, documentation
- Anshu Arora — crafts design motif consultant, dhokra atlas
- Badal Satpathy — dhokra figurine sourcing
- Sneha Chaudhury — design motifs, operations
- Maya Rachel McManus — operations and logistics
- Ayesha Dias — operations and logistics
- Natasha Fernandes — operations and logistics
- Christina Allen — planning and proposal development
- Boito — India Art Fair collaboration and 2D concept
- Devi Art Foundation — India Art Fair production sponsor
Engineering and fabrication (Arizona)
- Christopher Filkins — structural design
- Christopher Skiba — superstructure fabrication
- Shane Till — structural welding, leg truss columns
- David Ayers
- Rodney Staggers Jr — DREAMS Lab, scanning and archiving
- Mark Dill
- Patrick Smith
- Seth Brink
- Harish Anand
- Ramon Arrowsmith — ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration
Flame, light, and playa build
- Swig Miller — flame effects, 2025
- Jordan — flame effects lead, 2026
- Daniel Tulberg — co-lead, 2025 and 2026
- Kyle Breen — build crew, photography
- Andrew Miller
- Chelsea Miller
- Sam Hiatt
- Alex Yankovskiy
- Jeff Brochuck
- Deborah Smith
- Heidi Cooper-Panrucker
- Lindsay Van Voorhis
- Raj Aditya
- Reno Generator — build space, 2026
- Swing City Monkeys — camp and home on the playa, 2026
- Burning Man Art Support Services and Fire Art Safety Team
Support
- Sashi Wapang
- Kalyan Varma
- Ashwin Bhatnagar
- Christopher Furst
- Saurav Kumar
Crowdfunding contributors, 2025
- Jennifer Capricio
- Kalyan Sayre
- Micki Mooney
- Bernd Pfrommer
- Bjørt Debess Johannesen
- Lindsay Van Voorhis
- Chris Stevenson
- Ankita Prasad
- Cori Escalante
- Iris Yee
- Karthik Kuppa
- Sai Sukesh Gorrepati
- Aninda Mukherjee
- Ramon Arrowsmith
- James Nothnagel
- Patrick Gleason
- Raj Aditya
- Deirdre L. Milks
Institutions
- Burning Man Project — Black Rock City Honoraria Arts Grant, 2025
- Earth Innovation Hub Corp — producing nonprofit
In memory
- Kamaljeet Dash — to whom the first paper is dedicated
A Journey Aquatic · 2023
- Mark Dill — lead artist
DREAMS Laboratory
Students, staff, and collaborators of the lab are credited on the lab site and in each paper's author list. This section will grow as the ledger is brought current.
- Rodney Staggers Jr — Ph.D. student
- Bharath Desikan — master's student
- Kanav Prashar — robotics and perception research aide
- Aaryan Anand, Elizabeth Seaton, Logan Christian — undergraduate researchers
- Carlos Torre — research volunteer
Lineage
- Gaurav Sukhatme — doctoral advisor, University of Southern California
- Kanna Rajan — Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- Vijay Kumar — University of Pennsylvania
- Alberto Enrique Behar — in whose name the professorship is held