Stephen P. Huyler is an art historian, cultural anthropologist, photographer, and author. He has spent a large part of the last twenty-eight years traveling in Indian villages documenting craftsmanship and contemporary traditions. His focus during the past decade has been on the sacred arts and spiritual rituals of practical Hinduism.
Dr. Huyler co-curated an exhibition about sacred rituals in India entitled Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion that opened at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in May 1996. This long-running exhibition, on display through 2001, continues to be a great success in Washington. In the interest of disseminating the material more widely, Huyler has assembled a new traveling exhibition of photographs and interactive wooden shrines that complement his new book Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion, published by Yale University Press, September 1999. This new exhibition will travel throughout North America and abroad over the next several years.