Event details
Apr
16
Kargah Artist Workshop Series
This event is part of the Iran Center's 'Kargah' artist workshop series.
All levels in drawing and painting welcome. Registration requested.
“To write and abstract memory and feeling into an imaginative painting.”
When your cousin is braiding your hair in September and your 83 year old aunt suddenly feels sad that they cut her mothers braids without anyone's permission in the hospital because they didn’t want to wash her long hair in the 1990’s, what do you do with this sentiment? Create a watercolor painting. When you travel 8,000 miles to spend three weeks a year with your mom as a tourist in the home your family has lived in for 5 generations and border control asks, “What was your origin before becoming American?” And you say, “My mom is Kuwaiti and my dad was stateless, but he’s buried here, my heart is always here,” and he responds, “What was your grandfather’s name?” And after 30 hours of travel you say, “Ali, right?”
Ali?
Right?
What do you do with this? Probably make a painting. When your heart is burning at all of the injustices you were born into, that you witness your family continue to live, when surviving one oppressive nation after another, yet constantly enamored with the people that embody the cultures you inhabit, sometimes you create beautiful paintings.
Workshop participants will create watercolor illustrations based on short writing exercises.
All levels in drawing and painting welcome. Registration requested.
“To write and abstract memory and feeling into an imaginative painting.”
When your cousin is braiding your hair in September and your 83 year old aunt suddenly feels sad that they cut her mothers braids without anyone's permission in the hospital because they didn’t want to wash her long hair in the 1990’s, what do you do with this sentiment? Create a watercolor painting. When you travel 8,000 miles to spend three weeks a year with your mom as a tourist in the home your family has lived in for 5 generations and border control asks, “What was your origin before becoming American?” And you say, “My mom is Kuwaiti and my dad was stateless, but he’s buried here, my heart is always here,” and he responds, “What was your grandfather’s name?” And after 30 hours of travel you say, “Ali, right?”
Ali?
Right?
What do you do with this? Probably make a painting. When your heart is burning at all of the injustices you were born into, that you witness your family continue to live, when surviving one oppressive nation after another, yet constantly enamored with the people that embody the cultures you inhabit, sometimes you create beautiful paintings.
Workshop participants will create watercolor illustrations based on short writing exercises.
Speakers
Zahra Marwan
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