ArabishWay

Rajaa Gharbi, Selected Works: Exhibition by Rajaa Gharbi
2023-11-02 - 2023-12-02 | Gallery 110, 110 3rd Ave. S, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
VISUAL ART Every Thursday–Saturday, from November 2–December 2 12–5 pm
Featuring original acrylic paintings and prints from several previous solo exhibitions, artist Rajaa Gharbi‘s exhibition, Rajaa Gharbi, Selected Works is largely inspired by a sense of realism and the need for collective, life-nurturing visions and practices.
Gharbi’s works are never about just one or two themes. Among her earliest and indelible art influences and “training” grounds were her mother’s clothing designs, her father’s storytelling feats, her native city’s omnipresent visual worlds of hand-weaving arts, first centuries BCE monumental representational mosaic “paintings”, and the vestiges of a bygone Roman Empire. Visual storytelling and ancient scripts have held her focus since childhood. There, the first waves of infinite geometric designs and limitless color palettes permeated her psyche. Hopping around or staring at the fallen or still standing marble statues of all sizes, texts hand-engraved on steles, and very young olive trees cracking life open right through ancient fallen columns in her native Carthage, Tunisia and across North Africa are still among her sources of inspiration. She is also inhabited and taught by the geographic and human landscapes of the American Northwest.

First Ever Seattle SWANA Stitching circle
2023-11-05 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Contact Host for Location Details
Join our first ever Seattle SWANA Stitching circle
Are you working on, curious about, or interested in participating in your SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region craft? (Palestinian Tatreez, Egyptian Khayamiya, Armenian Janyak, and any others!)
Are you looking for like-minded folk where you can share all parts of who you are, in an inclusive space?
Bring any SWANA region craft you’re working on and join us for an afternoon to craft, share food and beverages and build SWANA community, village style. Bring a story to share!
Don’t have a craft you are working on but are curious/ interested? Come anyway – while this is not a teaching space, we will help each other along – no matter the place we are in our craft journey.

Details of our first gathering:
Date: Sunday, November 5th
Time: 2 – 5 pm
Location: Provided upon RSVP
Food: Potluck style!

Contact hala.saleh@gmail.com to RSVP and get location details.
This event is co-organized by Hala Saleh and Milla Prince, who are Palestinian Tatreez artists living in the Northwest.
