Tag: ART
How My Style Found Me
I remember being four years old and I would go with my mom to run errands or visit her friends. Wherever I had no friends to play with, my mom would always have a pencil and some notebook in her purse that she would hand to me so I can draw. I grew up loving to draw and ...
UMS Presents Arab World and its Diaspora
https://ums.org/series/the-arab-world-and-its-diaspora/ Includes Four Events in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Season Tickets available starting Monday, May 4 at 10 am. Southeast Michigan is home to a historic, celebrated, and diverse Arab community. This season, an expert advisory group composed of artists, scholars, and community leaders from our region has helped UMS co-curate a portfolio of performances ...
Dearborn Open Mic Featured Visual Artist – “Manifesting the Unseen” by Eman Hijazi
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Dearborn Open Mic Featured Artist – “You have my heart” Motherhood Sketches Series by Nada Hassan
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13th annual Arab Film Fest @ AANM
The Arab American National Museum (AANM) cordially invites you to the 13th annual Arab Film Festival (AFF), which takes place June 1st through June 10th. AFF strives to bring the best of the best films from around the Arab World and Arab American community to the doorstep of metro Detroit, with many films having their ...
NO TWO PRAYER NICHES ARE ALIKE
Arab Muslim women from Minnesota are portrayed in an exhibition inspired by Islamic art Dearborn, Mich. (May 16, 2018) - Within an approximately 8’x10’ prayer niche lies a directional compass guiding spoken prayers for any Muslim who retreats into it. In Arabic, this personal niche is called a mihrab, and like mosque architecture, no two ...
Hadi Eldebek on Why Must Artists Be Poor? and Grantpa
https://www.ted.com/talks/hadi_eldebek_how_artists_contribute_to_the_economy_and_how_we_can_support_them?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare The arts bring meaning to our lives and spirit to our culture -- so why do we expect artists to struggle to make a living? Hadi Eldebek is working to create a society where artists are valued through an online platform that matches artists with grants and funding opportunities -- so they can focus ...
Arab Arts Forum Joins Major Conference in Detroit
DIWAN7 EXAMINES ISSUES, TRENDS IN ARAB AMERICAN ART Biennial conference joins MOVE 2017 Arab American summit Includes premiere of new commissioned music score, opening of new AANM exhibition on LGBTQ themes Dearborn, Mich. (Oct. 16, 2017) – Over the past 12 years and six convenings, the Arab American National Museum’s (AANM) DIWAN: A Forum for ...
Endangered Art
Imagine a world without art. No Rembrandt, no Hemingway, no Kubrick, no J.S. Bach, not even “Cirque du Soleil”. As scary is that may sound, let us imagine for a moment that artistic imagination isn’t a human characteristic. Is it possible then, that we would lose our inspiration, and the compass of our humanity or ...
Oh Please, It Is Not Just a Logo!
When some clients tell me, "No I don't need a logo. I can make one on Word in 5 minutes. It's just a logo," I try to keep calm. I am a calm person after all. But I've studied art and design. The sketchbook has been my best friend since I was five years old. ...
Creativity is Intentional
I believed that because I was not naturally gifted in things like drawing and painting, or drawing stick figures for that matter, I never bothered to explore my personal artistic talent or creativity.
Detroit is Not On Fire by Renoun
Renoun recites her poem about Detroit, "Detroit is not on fire", in the Dearborn Open Mic. Powerful!
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