Career
She is known to have used innovative bronze casting techniques, improving the Dhokra method employing Lost-wax casting, which she learnt during her training days of the Bastar sculpting tradition of Chhattisgarh. The marriage was short-lived and Mukherjee, after the divorce, resumed her art studies by joining the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi (present day Delhi Technological University) and secured diploma in painting, graphics and sculpture. Later, she assisted Effendi, an Indonesian artist, at Shantiniketan till she got a scholarship for studies in Munich in 1953 which gave her opportunities to work under Toni Stadler and Heinrich Kirchner.
lieutenant was Toni Stadler who supported Mukherjee"s transition from a painter to a sculptor.
She returned India in 1957 and took up the job as an art teacher at Dowhill School, Kurseong where she stayed till 1959 when she moved to Pratt Memorial School, Kolkata, teaching there for one year. Mukherjee started freelancing after resigning from her regular job at Pratt Memorial in 1960 and trained in Dhokra casting technique under the tribal artisans of Bastar of Chhattisgarh.
Receiving a senior research fellowship in 1962 from the Anthropological Survey of India, she did research on the bell metal craft goods of India and Nepal till 1964. One of her creations, Emperor Asoka is on display at the Nandiya Gardens of International Trade Commission Maurya, New Delhi.
Simultaneously, she pursued a career as a writer of children"s stories and published a few books, Little Flower Shefali and Other Stories, Kalo and the Koel and Catching Fish and Other Stories being some of the notable ones.
She also published one monograph, Metal Craft in India in 1978, and two books on the traditional metal craft in India namely Metal Craftsmen in India in 1979 and In Search of Viswakarma in 1994. Meera Mukherjee died in 1998, at the age of 75.