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Smithsonian: ntroduction to Palestinian Thobe Embroidery: Panel Design
2021-05-11 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
For generations, Palestinian women have gathered with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Guided by Wafa Ghnaim, who began her training in embroidery with her mother at age 2, learn the history of the traditional Palestinian thobe, as well as the basic cross-stitch on waste canvas.
The skirt of a Palestinian thobe typically features heavily embroidered panels that give the skirt a mural-like quality. The panels can be heavily ornamented for special occasions.
Students of all skill levels are introduced to panel patterns and learn how to stitch them onto denim using waste canvas. Waste canvas allows artisans to adorn any piece of cloth or clothing and is an important skill to master in order to create traditional Palestinian embroidered garments.
This class combines detailed instruction on how to complete a small panel segment using the Cleopatra design on waste canvas with discussion of the pattern’s meaning and history.

Palestine Art Week
2021-05-15 - 2021-05-21 | WA
Join us for a seven-day celebration of Palestinian Arts as we hold over 30 online events this month. Palestine Art Week will run through May 15-21 hosting film screenings, poetry and literature readings, artist conversations and other events featuring Nabil Anani, Sliman Mansour, Mariam Tamari, and others. Palestine Writes joins this celebratory week in presenting the work of Palestinian poets and writers. Register once, link in bio.
palestinemuseum.us/paw
Click here for the full schedule: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/program
شاركونا الاحتفال بالفنون الفلسطينية هذا الشهر على مدى ٧ أيام متواصلة وأكثر من ٣٠ حدث عبر الانترنت. سيجري أسبوع فن فلسطين من أيار ١٥-٢١ حيث سنقيم عروض أفلام، قراءات شعرية وأدبية، ومحادثات مع فنانين بالإضافة إلى فعاليات أخرى تستضيف بها نبيل عناني، سليمان منصور، مريم تماري، وغيرهم. تشاركنا “فلسطين تكتب” بتقديم أعمال لشعراء وكتّاب فلسطينيون. سجلّوا مرة واحدة واحضروا أي فعالية:
palestinemuseum.us/paw
الرابط في البايو
ترقبوا الجدول كاملًا قريبًا!

Amir Zaki "Empty Vessel" - Online Exhibition
2021-05-18 - 2021-07-07 | WA
James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our seventh exhibition by California artist Amir Zaki. Comprised of two bodies of work, collectively entitled, “Empty Vessel,” the series features striking colorful photographs of both skateboard parks and broken ceramic vases. Together, these images open a discussion of the history and future of photography and duplicitous version of truth in the modern world. In his work, Zaki strives to disrupt common notions of authenticity, monumentality, and documentation through a hybridization of techniques. The two disparate series are connected through real and fictive space illuminating the truth between the everyday and the ideal. The gallery will mount virtual exhibitions until the next location of our physical space is announced in the fall of 2021.
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WORKS IN SHOW
ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amir Zaki
A firm believer in the transformative power of the photographic image, Zaki images are rooted in the history of the medium and uses it to shed light on the means of representation. Over the last 16 years, Zaki has pushed the physicality of the photograph’s two dimensional construct, allowing it to exist on its own and also exploring its own object-ness. In order to capture and record the original site, Zaki’s representations depict the complexity of place in terms of interactive evolving experience, an ongoing ecological intervention. The artist responds to the shifting contemporary landscape where nothing is permanent, constructing his own visual language to illustrate an entire mythology of place.
Amir Zaki lives and works in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1999 and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since graduating. He is a full professor at the University of California at Riverside. His work is included in many museum collections including the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

Artist Talk with Tatreez & Tea
2021-06-09 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join Wafa Ghnaim, MPP’s new Artist in Residence, to discuss Palestinian embroidery and what her goals are for her time at MPP

About this event

We are honored to officially announce our new Artist in Residence, Wafa Ghnaim of Tatreez & Too.
As part of the Artist in Residence program at the Museum, Wafa will be developing our programs that are aimed at the preservation of Palestinian embroidery in our greater mission to present the Palestinian experience with Washington, DC and the world. During her residency, Wafa will be offering talks and tours exclusive to MPP donors and visitors, furthering her research for her second book, and developing the embroidery collections of the Museum.
Wafa is an artist, author and educator (as well as lifelong student) of Palestinian embroidery, and has invested her life’s work in preserving Palestinian embroidery in the United States and in the diaspora. Wafa learned embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist and educator Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, at two years old. She began Tatreez & Tea in 2016, to preserve the skills and history of the art form in the diaspora, and she began teaching embroidery in 2017.

Meet Graphic Novelist Deena Mohamed: Interview + Q&A (online)
2021-07-08 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
6 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 8, 2021
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Join us for a live-streamed interview with AANM artist-in-residence, Egyptian illustrator and graphic designer Deena Mohamed, moderated by ACCESS and AANM Communications Specialist, Lujine Nasralla. Deena will discuss her graphic novel trilogy شبيك لبيك Shubeik Lubeik, the process of translating it to English, as well as her overall career as a graphic novelist.
Deena Mohamed is an Egyptian illustrator and graphic designer who first started creating comics at 18 with the viral satirical webcomic starring a Muslim superheroine, Qahera. Her graphic novel trilogy, Shubeik Lubeik, is an urban fantasy set in Cairo about a world where you can buy and sell wishes. The first volume of the trilogy was awarded Best Graphic Novel and the Grand Prize of the Cairo Comix Festival (2017). All three volumes are published by Dar el Mahrousa in Arabic, and the English translation of all three volumes combined has been acquired by Pantheon (U.S.) and Granta (U.K.), due to be released in 2022. She lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. www.deenadraws.art

The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery
2021-08-01 | WA
Class Type: Lecture Series
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Prerequisite: None
“The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery” is a six-module lecture-based course that combines existing art historical scholarship with Wafa Ghnaim’s most current, peer-reviewed research to explore and expand the traceable origins of traditional Palestinian textiles throughout the centuries.
Class Dates & Times:
The modules will be released on August 1, 2021. Optional live class discussions are scheduled for students to join with the instructor, ask questions, and share their thoughts with the community.
Modules:

Module 1: Traceable Origins of Traditional Palestinian Costume (2 hr)
Module 2: English and European Holy Land Portraiture (2 hr)
Module 3: Photography of the Holy Land (2 hr)
Module 4: Regional Distinctions of the Modern Period 1850 -1948 (2 hr)
Module 5: Exile & Dispossession in the Late Modern Period, 1950s – 1970s (2 hr)
Module 6: Palestinian Revivalism & The Avant-Garde, 1980s – current (2 hr)
Module 7: Live Class Discussion (2 hr)

Where
100% online through Tatreez & Tea Central
$200 for 3 month access to all content.

Home Away FROM HOME: Julian Pena Gallery
2021-08-05 - 2021-08-27 | Julian Pena Gallery, 1633 Bellevue Ave Suite E, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
When it comes to being of Middle Eastern descent and living in the U.S., one’s life experience includes regularly facing varying degrees of prejudice and discrimination. While these people feel grounded and a sense of belonging in their homes where their identities and cultures are very much alive, they are forced to confront feelings of otherness when they step outside whether it’s through receiving judgmental glances, harsh words or physical violence. With eyes on the outside, Middle Easterners who live in other parts of the world experience these struggles indirectly; feeling an instinctive connection to those in the U.S., they are affected by what they see and hear on the news or social media. “Home Away From Home” exhibits original work by artists of Middle Eastern descent living in the U.S. and abroad who attempt to explore themes of underrepresentation, isolation and racism while navigating the physical and emotional disconnect between themselves, their cultures and the places they call home.

Artist Talk with Diana Al-Hadid
2021-09-30 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Henry Art Gallery, 15th Avenue NE + NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
“Please join us in welcoming Diana Al-Hadid for an in-person, evening talk in anticipation of her exhibition Archive of Longings, opening at the Henry on October 2. Al-Hadid will delve into the personal archives of her creative practice, sharing insights into her process, the multiple sources that feed her work, and the sculptural projects featured within her exhibition, which span over a decade of creation.
This talk will also be streamed live on the Henry Art Gallery YouTube channel.
Admission: Free and open to the public. Registration is required for in-person attendance. The auditorium will be capped at 50% capacity.
Image: Diana Al-Hadid. Smoke Screen. 2015. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, plaster, pigment. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.” (Promo Copy)

Diana Al-Hadid: Archive of Longings: Exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery
2021-10-02 - 2022-02-06 | Henry Art Gallery, 15th Avenue NE + NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Diana Al-Hadid’s work explores the interplay between the female body and the European art canon; Syrian, Muslim, and immigrant histories and mythologies; and architectural icons and the natural world. Born in 1981 in Aleppo, Syria, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Al-Hadid creates artworks that speak to her interest in the melding of cultures and the translation of disparate narratives. This monographic exhibition will consist of a selection of 13 sculptural works made between 2010 and 2021 brought into interpretive grouping for the first time. Together the sculptures identify the artist’s investigation of historical, mythological, and biblical narratives of women as a fundamental through-line of her practice.
While Al-Hadid’s work is often interpreted primarily in relation to her interest in the art historical canon, this show situates the artist’s deployment of these influences as advancing a network of feminist concerns: the female protagonist and its conflicted history, as well as women’s agency, power, and identity. The title refers to the artist’s ongoing interest in the incomplete nature of collective history and the palimpsest of narrative and information that constructs our sense of history; it also resists the monumentalizing (and ultimately, patriarchal and colonialist) idea of fixity and singularity. Instead, Al-Hadid foregrounds disruption and rupture in the endlessly woven fabric of our stories of self/the body, the migration of information and interpretation through space and time, and the fundamentally unfixed nature of human desire.
The exhibition is held in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC), a nationwide initiative of art projects that seek to generate cultural awareness of feminist thought, experience, and action.
A brochure with a curatorial essay, alongside installation images, will accompany the exhibition.

HWAYITAH WA KHAMIYSA WA GHREEN: INTRODUCTION TO LIBYAN DRESS & ADORNMENT
2021-10-05 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Najlaa El-Ageli, Founder of Noon Arts Projects, a small private arts foundation, with a mission to bring the best of contemporary Libyan art, from both emerging and established artists, and expose it to the world stage, discussing her recent jewelery exhibition and providing our audience with an introduction to Libyan dress and adornment.
New Date: 5th October 2021
Time:12pm (NYC), 5pm (London), 8pm (Dubai)
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.
Eventbrite link which is now live:
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Virtual Book Event - Conversation with Rania Matar about her book "SHE | RANIA MATAR"
2021-10-10 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Virtual Book Event – Conversation with Rania Matar about her book “SHE | RANIA MATAR”

Sunday, October 10, 2021
12:00 PM 1:30 PM
Palestine Museum US (map)

Please click here to register for this event.
All times are based on US EDT – 12 Noon, 7:00 PM in Palestine.
Join us for a coversation with Rania Mata about her new photography book. Rania is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American documentary, portrait and fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States.

Virtual Delegations to Visit Public Street Art Installations w/ Eyewitness Palestine
2021-10-16 | WA
Join us for a virtual delegation to visit public art installations in Palestine. During this delegation we will speak with artists and see the ways in which they use art as a resistance tool. Join Palestinian artists, from the US and Palestine!
This delegation is co-sponsored by the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
EXACT DATES COMING SOON

Across Disciplines: Alia Ali & Tarek Yamani
2021-10-20 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Virtual event
FREE with RSVP
Join multimedia artist Alia Ali and musician/composer Tarek Yamani as the two artists of different disciplines interview one another, discover unexpected connections, and discuss each of their newest projects commissioned by UMS and AANM.
Alia Ali (Arabic: عاليه علي // Sabean: ‎ 𐩲𐩱𐩡𐩺𐩲|𐩲𐩱𐩡) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist. A child of migrant linguists, Ali has traveled to sixty-seven countries, lived in and between seven, and grown-up among five languages. Her migrations have led her to process the world through interactive experiences and the belief that the damage of translation and interpretation of written language has dis-served particular communities, resulting in the threat of their exclusion, rather than a means of understanding. As an artist who exists on the borders of identifying as West Asian, Eastern European, a United States citizen, queer, culturally Muslim yet spiritually independent, her work explores cultural binaries, challenges culturally sanctioned oppression, and confronts the dualistic barriers of conflicted notions of gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Through her practice, Ali critiques linguistics and inherited political structures and narratives, while simultaneously attempting to counter the polarization and miscommunication that imperils communities across the world, encouraging viewers to confront their own prejudices.
Tarek Yamani is an American-Lebanese New York-based composer and a self-taught jazz pianist dedicated to exploring relationships between African-American Jazz and Arabic rhythms/maqams. He is the recipient of awards such as the Givanas Foundation Grant, Huygens Scholarship, Andrea Elkenbracht Award, Prins Bernhard Culture Fund, Thelonious Monk Composers Competition Prize, Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency, New Dutch Composition Contest, and Composer’s Platform Commission by the Abu Dhabi Festival. Tarek has been recently commissioned by UMS (Ann Arbor) to write a new piece for the genre-bending Spektral Quartet to be premiered on October 27th, as part of the UMS Digital Artist Residency.

Tatreez and Tea: Class Registration: Winter 2022
2021-10-28 | WA
Join them for the many wonderful Palestinian embroidery programs this Winter term. Click on each program title below to learn more. To join a beginner class, or learn about other recorded class opportunities, check out the Winter 2022 registration page.

Lecture Series: The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery:

Rolling Admission

The Palestine Map Project:

Thursdays at 5 pm EST, begins January 13

The Village Series Thobe Project:

Fridays at 12 pm EST, begins January 7

The Village Series Thobe Project:

Thursdays at 7 pm EST, begins January 13

A Treasury of Palestinian Stitches Program:

Saturdays at 2 pm EST, begins January 8

The Denim Jacket Project:

Saturdays at 12 pm EST, begins February 12

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2021-11-01 - 2021-12-31 | WA
Your instructor is author and scholar Wafa Ghnaim, founder of Tatreez & Tea!
Tatreez & Tea’s mission is to preserve Palestinian embroidery and storytelling traditions in the diaspora. Tatreez & Tea is the first of it’s kind. When Wafa first founded Tatreez & Tea in 2016, she was the only educator solely focused on Palestinian embroidery, traveling the US and the world. Now, new local initiatives, culture bearers, “tatreez circles”, and mentors are emerging from communities around the world like never before. The tatreez revolution has gained a beautiful momentum and now is the time to join.
Wafa’s goal in her educational classes are three-fold: educate students from art history and oral history perspectives that preserve the meanings, stories and symbolism of traditional Palestinian embroidery motifs; teach versatile skills that allow students to eventually produce large independent projects; encourage students to become creative and grow beyond simply abiding by traditional embroidery principles.
Click here for upcoming events!
https://www.tatreezandtea.com/events

7.4 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Architecture & Clothing (Case study Damascus)
2021-11-02 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Dr. Salam Fakih, a Lebanese Professor, Researcher, and Interior Architect.
In addition to her 20 years’ experience in the field of design, and 14 years in educational teaching, Dr. Fakih is also a member and Head of specialized Technical Committee at General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education in Lebanon, where she constructs and periodically updates the curriculum of the fashion design. They will be discussing Dr. Salam’s research on the correlation between Architecture & Clothing in Damascus.
Date: 2nd November 2021
Time: 12 pm (NYC), 4 pm (London), 8 pm (Dubai)
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.
Eventbrite link: (for info only – this is now live):

Donkeysaddle Projects Presents: The Vignette Collective's Workshop Reading
2021-11-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
As we continue to bear witness to the attacks on Palestinian lives, we understand how present the voices of our artists are and need to be. During these times we look to artists within impacted communities as beacons for cultural transformation. Donkeysaddle Projects’ Vignette Collective strives to connect the decolonial struggles of Black, Palestinian, Chicanx, and Turtle Island’s Indigenous communities. Through poetry, personal essays, and performance, we look at the impacts of settler-colonization and celebrate the resilience of those who have been in struggle. And we want to share it with you.

That’s why we’re inviting you to join us on November 12th at 8pm ET for our 2nd virtual fundraiser featuring the work-in-progress from the Vignettes Collective. Get another sneak peek of our creative, collaborative process with our collective of artists, activists, and organizers, while raising funds to support Palestinians in urgent need in Gaza. We hope to see you there!

Online Art Exhibition: Site Insight
2021-11-13 - 2022-01-08 | WA
November 13, 2021—January 8, 2022 | Online Exhibition
James Harris Gallery is pleased to present “Site Insight” an exhibition that explores how artists use and interpret site as a position or location especially as to its environment. This show considers how some artists interpret site in a more literal term while others use it allegorically. The disparate works act like instruments in an orchestra pit. Individually, they are decisive works but taken in unison they reveal the emotional power works of art can have on a broad range of subjects and human character. Beauty is seen through ugliness and vice versa. All the works enlighten the viewer to the complexity of the world in which we live. The artists included in the show are: Squeak Carnwath, Claire Cowie, Fay Jones, Julie Mehretu, Jeffry Mitchell, Mary Ann Peters, Luke Kempton Williams, Bing Wright, and Amir Zaki.

Arab Costume Collections: Sustaining Legacies Symposium
2021-11-14 05:00 - 07:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
SYMPOSIUM – SAVE THE DATE
Arab Costume Collections: Sustaining Legacies Symposium
The Past, Present & Future
Date: Sunday 14th November 2021
Timings: 1 pm – 3 pm (London) / 5 pm – 7 pm (Dubai) / 8 am – 10 am (NYC)
Description: With the world beginning to open up we are delighted to announce that our online forthcoming ‘Arab Costume Collections: Sustaining Legacies Symposium – The Past, Present & Future ‘will be taking place on Sunday, 14th November. This will be a 2-hour online session with 2 panel sessions, the first focusing on the importance of Arab dress & culture with key collectors and speakers from around the globe and the second on the role and relevance of heritage contemporary brands.
Further details and registration coming soon!

On Borrowed Time in Gaza: Art in Confinement: Monica Reyes Gallery
2021-11-24 - 2021-11-27 | Mónica Reyes Gallery, 602 East Hastings (at Princess), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Join us November 24th at Monica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver for the opening of the exhibition “On Borrowed Time in Gaza: Art in Confinement”:
Drawings and Paintings by Palestinian, Gaza based artists:
Majdal Nateel Maisara Baroud
Maha Daya Mohammed Alhaj
Rufida Sehwail Ganem Alden
Mónica Reyes Gallery
602 East Hastings (at Princess), Vancouver
Wednesday November 24 to Saturday November 27, 2021.
Hours: 12 to 5pm
Closing reception and walkthrough: Saturday November 27 at 1:00pm
Art in Confinement evokes perseverance, humanism, and creativity in dark times. The
exhibition represents expressions from life in Gaza by six Palestinian artists, whose works defy a brutal Israeli blockade imposed on over two million Palestinians. Crossing states’ boundaries and aerial spaces to reach Turtle Island, the works affirm Palestinian hope,
persistence, endurance, and love of art and life. The two hundred drawings and
paintings are a testament of the power of art, the power of imagination under bombardment, and aspiration for a just and peaceful life in a forsaken world.
Making art in Gaza is an act of survival, refusal, and resistance to unendurable conditions
inflicted on Palestinians in the largest collective prison on earth. Deprivation of the Palestinian artists in Gaza from their right to freedom of movement, their right to connect with the rest of the art community and the public in colonized Palestine and beyond has not stopped them from making art. Despite Israel’s prohibition of art material and supplies from entering Gaza, or prohibiting art from exiting Gaza, artists continue to create engaging art, representing their experiences in confinement, isolation, and deprivation of basic human rights.
100% of the sales of the artworks, ranging in price from $50 to $1500 will be going to the artists and art therapy programs for children in Gaza. This exhibition is a call for support of Palestinian artists who live and work under extreme conditions in Gaza

Islamic Geometric Pattern Art Workshop (Zoom)
2021-12-07 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Description

For tweens and teens.
Combine math and art to learn how to draw six-fold geometric patterns using an isometric grid, a grid of equilateral triangles.
Materials Needed

printout of isometric grid (emailed the day before the event)

pencil

ruler

markers or pencils

Please register. You will be sent the Zoom link.
Closed captioning is available for online events. Captioning is auto-generated. Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request for all events. Contact the library at least seven days before the event if you need accommodation. Send your request to access@kcls.org.

Meditation & Art: Virtual Painting Workshops
2022-03-05 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4 Saturdays!
12-1:30 p.m. ET Saturdays, March 5-26, 2022
Meditation & Art: Virtual Painting Workshops with Suhad Khatib
Online via Zoom
Purchase tickets
Museum Members: $15
General Public: $20
Students: $17
This March, AANM artist-in-residence Suhad Khatib will host a 4-part online painting workshops to help students create 4 paintings a week. No experience is necessary to participate! Suhad will guide students through meditation practices and experiments with ink to create a new art practice they can fall back into in a post-pandemic world.
This workshop is open to/a safe space for adult women only. A required list of supplies must be purchased in advance to participate (see below).
Please note that this event will occur virtually and over the four Saturdays of March 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. If you purchase a ticket by Saturday March 5, you will have access to the rest of the workshops for the month.
Required List of Supplies (students must purchase in advance)
Black pens: Uni-Ball AIR Micro – 0.5mm Fine Rollerball – Pack of 12 – Black
Ink: Liquitex 4260337 Professional Acrylic Ink 1-oz jar, Carbon Black
Brushes: Princeton Artist Brush, Neptune Series 4750, Synthetic Squirrel Watercolor Paint Brush, Round, Size 8
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski at KGrabowski@accesscommunity.org.

SPECIAL PRE-RECORDED WEBINAR: HERITAGE TO ENRICH LIVES
2022-04-05 | WA
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli and Heike Weber, Embroiderer & Author had a very special conversation earlier in March. To be released on Tuesday, 5th April.
Heike recently exhibited at Dubai Expo 2020, and launched her book documenting the history of embroidery in the Levant region titled “Anat and her hero Baal – The embroidery language of The Levant”.
When Heike Weber arrived in Syria in 1982, seeking refuge from the Lebanese civil war, she fell in love with the country’s capital Damascus.During the years of war, she braved the mortars and shelling that left their marks on the walls of her home located in a narrow alleyway in the heart of Damascus old city.Now 70, the German woman vowed to not leave the country and she said she feels a sense of duty to the country she has called home for decades.Married to a Palestinian, Weber started her life in the Yarmouk camp, near Damascus, where she followed her passion for embroidery. She started to learn about diverse Syrian designs and teach women in the camp.In 2003, Weber moved with her family to a house in the old city where she opened her atelier.Two of Weber’s children left before the war and the third left after a mortar hit the house.Weber now lives on her own, spending most of her time with her embroidery students, and sells her hand-knitted embroidered designs to tourists.She wrote a book documenting the history of embroidery in the region titled “Anat and her hero Baal – The embroidery language of The Levant”.
Please register to receive an email with a link to the recording on Tuesday, 5th April which you can then view in your own time.
Release Date: 5th April 2022
Time: 4 am (NYC), 9 am (London), 12 noon (Dubai)
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
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Art Show: Shadow Time: Claire Cowie, Fay Jones, and Mary Ann Peters
2022-05-03 - 2022-06-26 | Studio E, 609 S Brandon St, Seattle, WA, 98108, United States
“Shadow Time: Claire Cowie, Fay Jones, and Mary Ann Peters” at studio e

May 3, 2022—June 26, 2022 | Reception Saturday, May 14th, 5-7PM at studio e in Georgetown, Seattle
James Harris Gallery in coordination with studio e is pleased to present a group exhibition titled “Shadow Time.” This cross-generational show features the work of three women who use personal histories as the thematic ideas for their work. “Shadow Time” explores aspects of memory and how it remains buried in the unconscious until a catalyst brings it to the fore. The three artists have deep connections to the Northwest, and have all worked individually with admiration for one another’s work. They share some commonality, but mostly each artist’s oeuvre is distinct. This show is the first time multiple works by Claire Cowie, Fay Jones and Mary Ann Peters will be on view together at studio e gallery.
studio e 609 S Brandon St, Seattle, WA 98108 (206) 762-3322 studioegallery.net

Dreams Rising Artist Talk: Gaza Artists Malak Al-Absy and Mohammed Qraiqe
2022-06-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip as young as 14 years old have endured four major Israeli military offensives. They live under an Israeli military blockade which controls who goes where and when, which goods can enter and exit Gaza, and which patients can seek specialized health care abroad. And yet, they are dreaming of a better future.
The Museum of the Palestinian People is pleased to introduce a new exhibition that invites visitors to imagine a better future for Palestinian children in Gaza. Working with a team of youth specialists, curator Ahmed Mansour asked children to paint a vision of their future.
The exhibition was envisioned and created in memory of the 67 Palestinian children killed in the May 2021 Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip. The exhibition features artwork created by 11 child and youth artists in Gaza in collaboration with Sama Center for Art and Culture.
This event is a conversation with two of the young artists featured in the exhibition: 16-year-old Malak Al-Absy and 21-year-old Mohammed Qraiqe. The event will be moderated by Ahmed Mansour, the curator of Dreams Rising and the director of programs at the Museum of the Palestinian people.
Malak Al-Absy, 16, is a Palestinian artist from Gaza who was born in 2006, the year before the Israeli blockade closed the Gaza Strip to the rest of the world. Malak has lived through four major Israeli military offensives in the 2008, 2012, 2014, and 2021. She started to paint from a young age and has participated in several local art exhibits in Gaza City. Through art, Malak tries to explore the idea of love in the war-torn Gaza.
Mohammed Qraiqe, 21, is from the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City. His talent as an artist emerged when he was five years old. He was adopted by several art institutes in Gaza before he started making his way to international exhibits. Mohammed has toured Dubai, Tunis, Lebanon, and Chicago with his art. He’s currently finishing his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at a university in Norway.

Online: Sulger-Gallery Exhibition Extension Alternative Museum of the Sudan
2022-06-28 - 2022-08-31 | WA
Following the success of Amado Alfadni’s ‘Alternative Museum of the Sudan’ the exhibition has been extended and will remain on display at Sulger-Buel Gallery until the 31st of August 2022 and viewing is available by appointment only.
This solo exhibition highlights Alfadni’s deep research-based investigations into the forgotten silenced histories of the Sudan. The artist utilizes oral archives, postcards, photographs, performances, and mixed-media costumes to reveal the complex relationship between colonialism and Black Africa, as well as the intermingled histories of Black Africa, Egypt, and North Africa.
About the artist:
Born in 1976 in Cairo, Amado Alfadni’s childhood was composed of two distinct environments: the Cairene Street and the Sudanese home. The relationship and the tension between these two cultures strongly influenced his views, making him question the subject of identity with its related rhetoric, as well as the variables of nation and ethnicity in his work. By working with forgotten historical events and referring to the current state of things, he challenges the power dynamics between the individual and authority on both the social and political levels. He gives a voice to the ethnic minority, with a focus on research and documentation of ignored happenings.
About the curator:
Najlaa El-Ageli, an architect (AA Dip) with over twenty years of experience in the profession, founded Noon Arts Projects in 2012. A small private arts foundation, with a mission to bring the best of contemporary art from the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, from both emerging and established artists, and expose it to the world stage. Collaborating with art venues and foundations, she has curated over 20 exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Malta, Italy, and the US.

11.4 Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Tatreez & Tea
2022-06-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli and Wafa Ghnaim, Founder of Tatreez & Tea discuss her upcoming book to be published.
Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian-American artist, researcher, writer, educator, and businesswoman who began learning Palestinian embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, when she was two years old. This legacy has deeply influenced her career, becoming a leading educator in the field, the first-ever Palestinian embroidery instructor at the Smithsonian Museum, and collections specialist at the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C. Wafa continues her mother’s educational legacy through Tatreez & Tea, a global arts education initiative that she established in 2016. Tatreez & Tea’s mission is to educate and empower exiled Palestinians of their heritage as well as to cultivate and strengthen allyship with non-Palestinians around the world.
Embroidery, or tatreez, is a centuries-old practice preserved through intergenerational exchange over a cup of tea, or shay. Inspired by generations of fibre artists, The Tatreez Institute continues the rich traditions of embroidery, textile, and storytelling of Palestine, the Palestinian diaspora, and Greater Syria from the United States.Wafa coined the title “Tatreez & Tea” in 2015 when she set out to write a book that preserved the meanings, stories, and patterns of Palestinian embroidery designs that she and her sisters had learned throughout their lives.
Date: 28th June 2022
Time: 12 pm (NYC), 5 pm (London), 8 pm (Dubai)
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
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A Treasury of Palestinian Stitches Program with Tatreez and Tea
2022-09-10 - 2022-10-15 | WA
Begins September 10 (Saturdays at 12pm EST)
Inspired by the infamous book by Margarita Skinner, “A Treasury of Stitches”, this program honors the various needle working techniques of historic Palestine beyond the cross-stitch. “A Treasury of Palestinian Stitches” program is a creative independent project, where students participate in a six-part virtual course teaching the traditional stitches practiced by Palestinians for centuries, learning the correct implementation and use of each stitch.
The course series covers 10 traditional stitches, including couching stitch (tahriri and rasheq), satin stitch, habka stitch, sabalah stitch, managel stitch, two types of back-stitch, double buttonhole stitch, buttonhole wheel. All classes will be conducted virtually and will be recorded for those that cannot attend the scheduled Zoom sessions.
Fall 2022 Schedule: September 10, 17, 24/ October 1, 8, 15
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MACFEST 2022: Islamic Calligraphy Workshop (online)
2022-09-12 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | WA
Join our Islamic Calligraphy workshop led by the internationally renowned calligrapher Samir Malik as part of Arab heritage Festival

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Join us for our workshop introducing the basics of Islamic art led by the internationally renowned calligrapher Samir Malik to celebrate Arab Heritage.
Your will learn the basics in Islamic calligraphy and start the journey of writing beautifully, exploring their creativity and getting to know a side of Islam that will allow them to beautify your homes, the world and transcend boundaries and faiths.

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SWANA Style Series: Revival of the Jericho Thobe Ubb
2022-11-05 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
The SWANA Style Saturday Series is a lecture series focused on exploring the traditional dress of cultural communities living in SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa). The aim of this series is to bring awareness to styles that have generally been left out of the historical record, however have great historical origination stories. Our cultural memory must preserve this knowledge for the next generation.
Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited area in the world. Today, it is the last Palestinian city before crossing the Allenby Bridge to Jordan. Geological and geographic factors have contributed to its long history of survival and an ideal place for settlement, making it a source of envy and coveted possession for invaders who have seen Jericho as the key to controlling Palestine. In the oldest continuously inhabited place on earth, what is the oldest traditional dress worn by the residents? And, is it still being worn today?
Learn the answers to these questions, and more, at the next installment of SWANA Style Series, titled “Reviving The Jericho ‘Thobe Ubb’. Learn about Wafa’s most recent discovery of the Thobe Ubb at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a treasure that has yet to be identified in the museum’s catalogue.
Please note that you are welcome to register for the lecture and watch the recording at a later time, because it will be recorded and sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event. However, the recording will be available for a limited time.
