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Artist Talk and Reception

ArtSchool Palestine in cooperation with Al Mahatta Gallery present artists-in-residence: Samah Hijawai & Sarah Beddington.

The artists will give a presentation about their artistic practices followed by a discussion moderated by Shuruq Harb.

Saturday 20th of June at 6:30pm at Al Mahatta Gallery (near Bank of Palestine)
followed by a Reception
 
Samah Hijawi, Jordanian artist, writer and educator based in Amman. Working with various media, her work investigates collective memory and social identity. Hijawi is also a contributing writer at various local and international arts and culture magazines (give examples). Her works are in key public and private collections in Amman, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Greece and London.  Hijawi earned a Masters in Fine Arts from St Martins School of Art and Design – London, 2005. www.samah-hijawi.com

Sarah Beddington  British artist based in New York and London. Her work investigates the social, personal and political intersection found in everyday occurrences. Working in a variety of media, she records unique social and aesthetic circumstances that manifest themselves in unanticipated ways.

Most notable solo exhibitions include Crossing, DAC, New York (2008); Places of Laughter and of Crying, Bloomberg SPACE, London (2008); Panoptiscope, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London (2006). She has also participated in a number of international group exhibitions in Spain, China, Denmark, Mexico and the USA.  Her work is in a number of public and private collections including Arts Council England. www.sarahbeddington.com

For further information please contact us at: info@artschoolplaestine.com

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ArtSchool Palestine is pleased to welcome the artist-in-residence Michael Baers who just arrived and will be with us for one month. During his stay Baers will give a one week workshop at the International Academy of Art Palestine starting on Monday the 22nd of June. For further information on the workshop please contact us at: info@artschoolpalestine.com

Michael Baers was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Hawaii. With the exception of a year in New York, he has been based in Berlin since 2003, and has participated in exhibitions principally in North America and Europe, where he has exhibited publication works and conceptual drawing projects. With his comics and other graphical works he is also a frequent collaborator to publication initiatives, including Fucking Good Art, the E-Flux Journal, Chto Delat, and SUM. Baers attended the California College of Arts as an undergraduate and, a decade later, completed an MFA in studio art and critical writing at the California Institute of the Arts (in the intervening period, he first embarked on a career in commercial film before abandoning this aspiration to work as a journalist). Baers also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2004/05. An important corollary to his artistic practice is his work as a teacher. He has been a guest instructor in Denmark and Norway, conducting seminars that mix theory and artistic praxis. Currently he is an instructor at Det Fynske Kunstakademi in Denmark. He also occasionally writes catalogue essays, articles, and reviews.