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PREMIER: PORTLAND, OREGON
Coffee with Cardamom
Curated by Andrea (Ray) Boyle
–PRESS RELEASE–
Solo Exhibit: “Can You See Me Now? (Part One): Reflections on Palestine” by Sarah Farahat
Group Exhibit: “Mirrors: A Middle Eastern/ American Collaboration”
Artists: Farooq Hassan, Marwan Nahle, Becca Bernstein, Jim Lommasson, Amira Dughri,
Rolla Selbak, Sarah Farahat, Andrea Boyle, Baher Bhutti, and Beth Ann Short.PLACE II: Settlement Galleries @ Pioneer Square Mall
700 SW 5th Ave, 3rd Floor of Atrium Bldg.
July 16- August 14, 2011Opening Reception: July 16, 6:00- 9:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Thurs-Sun, Noon- 6:00 pm
Special Events: Doors at 6:30pm, Begin at 7:00 pmCoffee with Cardamom: Curator Andrea Boyle presents a collaborative project titled, “Mirrors,” with a spotlight solo exhibition of Sarah Farahatʼs, “Can You See Me Now? (Part 1): Reflections on Palestine”
“Mirrors,” is a collaborative art-as-process piece exploring relationships of identity, responsibility and community between Middle Eastern-born and American-born artists within the current global context of the political uprisings in the Middle East. Using art as the common language, these artists will explore their relationships with one another by participating in weekly art therapy sessions, current topic conversations, and creating a collaborative body of multi-media artwork. As a process piece, “Mirrors,” examines the importance of artists, inspirations, and ideologies coming together in a space of reflection; in that, only a portion of the show features completed collaboration pieces, the remainder of the show focuses on pieces in process, as the artistic dialogue and weekly meetings continue in the gallery space. The show is designed to invite the audience to participate as both observer and subject, reflecting on their own insights on identity, responsibility, and community in the larger global context.
“Can You See Me Now? (Part One): Reflections on Palestine” by Sarah Farahat is a RACC sponsored solo exhibition culminating two years of travel, art making, and organizing efforts. The show contains photographs taken in the West Bank and Jerusalem, an ongoing collaboration between the artist and her deceased grandfather, sculptural reflections on Gaza and organized weekly events featuring internationally known academics, artists, and activists. All events are free and open to the public. For a full calendar of events, please visit: http://sarahfarahat.wordpress.com/events
You can listen to Eva Lake’s Art Focus interview on KBOO with Andrea Boyle and Sarah Farahat here: http://kboo.fm/node/29710
July 20th: Journalism and New Media in the Middle East: Lecture and Discussion with Stanford Fellow Jenka Soderburg and Palestinian Journalist Saed Bannoura
July 30th,:First Hand: A Night of Storytelling from the West Bank and Gaza.
August 3rd: From South Africa to Palestine: The shaping of a movement through Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
- Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CCRC)
The Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange has organized 16 mural projects created by children and supporting adults, working in communities across America, and in Baghdad, Iraq and Amman, Jordan.
We worked through churches, independent media centers, international NGOs, art galleries, museums, and community organizations. The mural projects created a unique opportunity for Iraqi and American youth to express themselves across the barriers of language, culture and politics. Painting in response to the question, How will they know us? young artists used their creative talents to speak on their own behalf, describing themselves and their communities, sharing their cultural and historical identity across the deep divide created by years of war.
The works created by these children will be on display at the Northampton Center for the Arts, which will also host a series of events including readings, film screenings and discussions. I had the pleasure of meeting Claudio Lefko, founder of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange, at the Transcultural Exchange conference in March. I have been looking forward to this exhibition ever since.
Having the Life of Our Times:
A community response to children, war and the possibilities for peace
Wednesday, June 22 – Friday, June 24
The following events all take place at the Northampton Center for the Arts, 17 New South Street, Northampton.
Wednesday, June 22, 5:00 p.m.
Having the Life of Our Times
The main exhibit of acrylic-on-canvas murals
Two Artist, Two Cultures, Two Views
Exhibit by Thamir Dawood and Harriet Diamond. Runs June 20 – July 31.
Wednesday, June 22, 7:00 p.m.
And Their “Views” Will Be Given Due Consideration
A panel discussion reflecting on the murals, children’s art, and Iraqi history and culture
Thursday, June 23, 12:00 noon, West Gallery
Gallery Talk with artists Thamer Dawood and Harriet Diamond
Thursday, June 23, 7:30 p.m.
Aftermath
A staged reading of a play written and produced by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, with talk-back
Friday, June 24, 12:00 noon, West Gallery
Noon time discussion: Iraq and the US, The Possibilities for Reconciliation
Friday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.
An Evening of Dance, Music, Readings and Spoken Word Performance
The UMass Student Union Art Gallery, the Fine
Arts Center, and the Springfield Vet Center, in collaboration with
UMass Veteran Services and the Veterans Education Project of Amherst,
will be presenting an art exhibit by war veterans called Creative
Expressions. Applications are now being accepted. Work must be
created by combat veterans. Learn more.
Deadline: September 1, 2011
www.fineartscenter.com
www.springfieldvetcenter.org
www.umass.edu/rso/suag
www.umass.edu/veterans/
www.vetsed.org
Additional Events:
November 2, 7:30 PM “The Things They Carried”- A play based on the book by Tim O’Brien at UMass Bowker Auditorium
October 31—November 19 “Creative Expressions “- An art exhibit by War
Veterans at the UMass Student Union Art Gallery
Opening Reception—Nov 2, 5-7PM
Film Series Symposium
Please check the Fine Arts Center website in August for detailed information.
No Place Called Home …This wasn’t supposed to be a love story - A New Play with Music, Written and Performed By Kim Schultz
Read more about the artists and their work here: http://iraqivoices.intersectionsinternational.org/the-art/
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/unveiled/
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea UK
Jan 30th – May 9th 2009
Kader Attia, Ghost, 2007, Aluminium foil Dimensions variable
“Charles Saatchi … has put together an exhibition of contemporary art from the Middle East which contains elements that could provoke dramatically hostile reactions from Muslim fundamentalist quarters. In our hypersensitive times, after the fatwa condemning Salman Rushdie and the violent reaction to the Danish cartoons of the Prophet, Saatchi might be testing his luck in celebrating homosexual images of cavorting naked Muslim men, and cartoonish sculptures of Tehran prostitutes and transsexuals.
Yet however combustible it may turn out to be, Saatchi has good reason to put on this top-notch survey of Middle Eastern contemporary art. News of the Middle East today is dominated by images and reports of death and destruction, of terrorists and refugees, and the human misery caused by long-held political and religious antagonism. This widespread conflict overshadowing the region has tended to obscure the remarkably vibrant contemporary art scene that is alive and well in the countries of the Middle East and its diaspora.”
- Joanna Pitman , Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at Saatchi Gallery
Unveiled, the new Saatchi Gallery’s second show lays bare the Middle East in all its raw and quirky glory, The Times, 1/27/09, retreived 1/19/11, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5592197.ece
