IMEU : Visual Arts

Art exhibit to kick off 'Jerusalem: Capital of Arab Culture 2009' celebration (This Week in Palestine)

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:38:26 PST

Through their Eyes is an exhibition that brings together Palestinian artists who, over decades, have been painting Jerusalem in a wide array of rich representations, using various themes, styles and mediums. The focus is on the works that reflected their different representations of the city, their impressions, memories, images and recollections before its occupation in 1967, and after.

Her dark materials (Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, The National)

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:46:13 PST

When Emily Jacir was a kid, she told her family she wanted to become an artist and they panicked - not because they thought a life in the arts would be difficult but because they thought it might be dangerous. "They'll kill you, too," they said. Jacir's family wasn't just being melodramatic. In the context of Palestinian society in the late 1970s, to be an artist, literary figure or intellectual with a public profile was indeed something of a risk.

Programming for Palestinian-Israeli peace (Guy Griml, Haaretz)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:20:00 PST

"My goal is to remove the psychological barrier Israelis have against working with Palestinian companies," Tahboub says. "Our people have a good command of English, good managerial abilities, a familiarity with Israeli and Western culture and knowledge of the computing field. In addition, we are in the same time zone. Everyone knows it's possible to do business with Palestinians in the field of stone and marble, or textiles. They didn't know it was also possible to do IT outsourcing," he adds.

"I come from there and remember..." exhibit to mark Nakba anniversary (Gina Benevento & Issam Nasser, UNRWA)

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:07:00 PST

Looking over the photographs selected by Amani Shaltout, our dedicated archivist, my eyes linger on the faces. What happened to the old man being helped aboard a departing boat? Where is the young woman staring out at us from the back of a Haganah truck? There is almost a uniformity to these images. The faces inevitably express fear, confusion, sadness.

The Bethlehem Peace Center: a symbol of culture and coexistence (IMEU)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:17:00 PST

Situated in the heart of Bethlehem, directly between the Church of the Nativity and the Mosque of Omar on Manger Square, the Bethlehem Peace Center stands as a symbol of this West Bank city's reputation for coexistence, and is one of the premier cultural institutions and performance venues in Palestine.

Traveling exhibition of Palestinian artists on tap (The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:33:00 PST

"The Stateless" is the title Mary Evangelista has chosen for a traveling exhibition of mixed media works by 10 Palestinian artists. Evangelista began to acquaint herself with the work of young Palestinian artists when she curated the ARTIsrael exhibitions of 1985 and 1986. As the idea of an exhibition by contemporary Palestinians became a reality, the New Yorker selected a panel of five respected jurors to choose the 10 finalists.

A refugee's rendering (Dana Gilerman, Haaretz)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:13:00 PST

Marwat Isa took an interest in her family's expulsion from the upper Galilee village of Biram only after her father's death in 1991. "We always lived with a sense of belonging to that place," says Isa. "To this day, people in Gush Halav live in unfinished homes, because they believe it will all be over in a little while, and we'll be able to return. The state lets us visit the village on two occasions: to hold ceremonies in the church and to bury our dead in the cemetery."

First class entering Academy of Art Palestine (Maria Khoury, The Palestine Chronicle)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:50:00 PST

This September 2007, The International Academy of Art Palestine opened its doors to the first set of ten students to study for four years in the experimental program leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in contemporary visual arts. Such a unique project is an effort to support institution building and capacity building during these difficult times in the Occupied Territories. The leading artists of Palestine consider this event a significant cultural achievement aiming to establish the academy as a distinctive higher education institution.

Launching the International Academy of Art Palestine (Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz)

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:49:00 PST

"The school of art is our attempt to live more normally," says Palestinian artist Khaled al-Khourani, one of the founders of the International Academy of Art Palestine. "A month ago, the Israeli army entered Beit Hanun and they reported the massacre that occurred there on the news. On the same day, there was a film festival in Ramallah.

Ismail Shammout (1930-2006): Artist, Activist, Legend (Haithem El-Zabri, IMEU)

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:25:00 PST

Ismail Shammout was a refugee who lived the Palestinian experience fully, and went on to tell the story through art. Dispossession, exile, identity, suffering, perseverance, and struggle, are all predominant features of his brilliant oil paintings, and his remarkable way of advocating for his people's cause. Shammout was born in 1930 in the Palestinian agricultural town of Lydda to a produce wholesale merchant.