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DESCRIPTION:Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG) presents Zamin Project, a virtual 
 multi-faceted art project aiming to create a space for dialogue and 
 connection between SWANA (South West Asia and North African) artists, 
 curators, and art educators in the Bay Area and beyond. This series is 
 initiated by Iranian-American artist Shaghayegh Cyrous, aiming to focus on 
 the question of How can we create our own resources? by gathering SWANA 
 artists, educators, and art leaders to develop a solution for enriching the 
 community in the Bay area and beyond.\n\nThis is an online only 
 event.\n\nZamin Project | Panel 2: SWANA in the BAY AREA: Art leaders & 
 Institutions\nSaturday, August 21, 2021, 2:00PM, Moderated by Roula 
 Seikaly\n\nPanelists: Root Division: Michelle Mansour, /Slash: Ana Saygi, 
 Incline: Shirin Makaremi, Arab Amp: Leyya Mona Tawil\n\nRead about the 
 Panelists:\nMichelle Mansour is an artist, educator, and curator as well as 
 the current Executive Director of Root Division, a visual arts non-profit 
 in San Francisco. Her work has been shown in a variety of non-profit and 
 commercial venues such as The deYoung Museum, Morris Graves Museum, and 
 Minnesota Street Project and SFMOMA Artists Gallery. She has also curated 
 and co-curated several exhibitions including 2x2's at ProArts and 
 Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content. 
 Mansour received her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. 
 She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a BA in Art Theory and 
 Practice from Northwestern University and a Post Baccalaureate degree in 
 Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mansour has 
 given lectures and been on panels with the San Francisco Arts Commission, 
 Grants for the Arts, The Lab, San Francisco Art Institute, California 
 College of the Arts, University of San Francisco, and Sonoma State 
 University.\n\nAna Saygi was born in Turkey. She now lives and works in San 
 Francisco. She earned her MFA in Fine Arts from the California College of 
 the Arts and her BFA from the Ohio State University. Utilizing photography, 
 painting, and custom-ordered objects, her work explores representational 
 erasure and the inaccessibility of imagery within anonymous forums of the 
 internet. Ana is the founding director of / (slash), a nonprofit visual art 
 space founded in 2018 to advance and promote the expanding field of 
 contemporary art in San Francisco through exhibitions, publications, and 
 public programming.\n\nLeyya Mona Tawil is an artist working with sound, 
 performance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, 
 American engaged in the world as such. Her 25-year record of performances 
 have been presented in the US, Europe, Russia, and the Arab world. She was 
 the 2020 ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow (NYC), 2018 
 Saari Fellow (FI), and currently resident artist with the Wysing Art 
 Centre/British Council (UK). She is the director of TAC Temescal Art Center 
 in Oakland-CA, and founder of Arab.AMP - a platform supporting futurist art 
 and ideas from the SWANA diaspora, our region, and our allied BIPOC 
 communities.\n\nShirin Makaremi is an Iranian-American artist and curator 
 based in San Francisco, California. Makaremi is the co-director at Incline 
 Gallery in San Francisco and a member of San Francisco Camerawork’s 
 programming committee. In 2018, Makaremi was part of a curatorial 
 collective in residence at SOMArts Cultural Center. Makaremi, received her 
 BA from San Francisco State University in Studio Art and Art 
 History.\n\nRead About the Moderator:\nRoula Seikaly is an independent 
 curator and writer, and Senior Editor + Co-Curatorial Director at Humble 
 Arts Foundation. Roula has curated exhibitions at SF Camerawork and SOMArts 
 (San Francisco), Axis Gallery (Sacramento), Filter Photo Festival 
 (Chicago), CPAC (Denver), Blue Sky Gallery (Portland), and the Utah Museum 
 of Fine Arts. Her writing is published virtually and in print at 
 Hyperallergic, Photograph, BOMB, Afterimage, Aperture, Strange Fire 
 Collective, and KQED Arts. She is the co-recipient of the 2019 Blue Sky 
 curatorial prize for the exhibition "An Inward Gaze."\n\nPanel Discussions 
 | Artists Interviews | Online Archival Resources\nAugust 14 - 25 September 
 25, 
 2021\n\n\nhttps://aggregatespacegallery.org/project/zamin/\nfacebook.com/aggregatespace\ninfo 
 [at] aggregatespacegallery.org\n\n\nAggregate Space Gallery programs are 
 generously supported by the Zellerbach family foundation, and have been 
 previously supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 
 National Endowment of the Arts, Creative Work Fund, Kenneth Rainin 
 Foundation, and others.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/07/18844180.php
SUMMARY:Zamin Project | Panel 2: SWANA In The Bay Area: Art leaders & Institutions
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/07/18844180.php
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