BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:209@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150228T163000 DTSTAMP:20150129T094459Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/creative-dissent-arts-arab-world-u prisings/ SUMMARY:Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings DESCRIPTION:Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings\nBryn Mawr C ollege is examining the role of the arts in the Arab Spring movements with the exhibitionCreative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings\, and a public program featuring Ganzeer\, one of the most prominent of the artist s active in Cairo during the uprisings against the Mubarak government.\n\n The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Arab American National Museum and guest curators\, Christiane Gruber and Nama Khalil of the University of Michigan.  It will be on display in the Class of 1912 R are Book Room in Bryn Mawr College’s Canaday Library from Thursday\, Jan uary 22nd through Friday\, March 6\, noon to 4:30 pm daily.\n\n \;\nP ublic Programs\nExhibition Opening and Lecture by Exhibition Curator Chri stiane Gruber\n\nThursday\, January 22\n7:30 pm\n\nCarpenter Library 21\, Bryn Mawr College\n\nAn Evening with Ganzeer\, Egyptian Artist and Activi st\n\nMonday\, January 26\n7:30 pm\n\nThomas Great Hall\, Bryn Mawr Colleg e\nGanzeer in Conversation: Art\, Revolution\, and the Arab Spring in Egyp t\nTuesday\, January 27\,\n5:00 pm\nGoodhart Music Room\, Bryn Mawr Colle ge\nConversation with Ganzeer\, led by Jennifer Pruitt\, Assistant Profess or\, Department of Art History\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n\n“The Square\,” screening of the 2014 Academy Award-winning documentary\, fol lowed by discussion\n\nThursday\, February 26\n\n7:00 pm (admission charge d)\n\nBryn Mawr Film Institute\n\n824 W. Lancaster Ave.\, Bryn Mawr\, PA\n \nThe exhibitions and programs\, other than “The Square\,” are free an d open to the public. For information\, please contact us at 610-526-6576\ n\n \;\nCurator: Christiane Gruber\n \n\nDr. Christiane Gruber is Ass ociate Professor of Islamic Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the De partment of Art History at the University of Michigan\, and the curator of “Creative Dissent: The Arts of the Arab World Uprisings\,” originally shown at the National Arab American Museum\, Dearborn\, Michigan\, Novemb er 2013 – February 2014. She is the author of numerous articles and thre e books on Islamic art\, including the forthcoming The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images (2016).  She is also ac tively engaged with contemporary art in the Middle East. In addition to cu rating the “Creative Dissent” exhibition\, she is the editor\, with Su ne Haugbolle\, of Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of t he Image (2013)\, and has written on political art in Turkey and post-rev olutionary Iran. She holds a doctorate in Islamic Art History from the Uni versity of Pennsylvania.\n\nStatement:\n\nI have had an urge to curate an exhibition on the arts of the Middle East uprisings since 2011\, when the demonstrations first broke out in Tunisia and Egypt\, later engulfing Liby a\, Syria\, Bahrain\, and Yemen. I myself experienced and photographed the Gezi Park demonstrations in Istanbul this past summer\, which gave me a g reater sense of purpose and urgency. As the revolutions unfolded\, I began to record the extraordinary output of visual imagery\, chants\, and other expressive media through which protesters were mobilized and inspired int o collective action.\n\nI believe that the power of these modes of communi cation cannot be underestimated. Many forms of performed and visual dissen t\, however\, are ephemeral and born in the streets\, so it is a challenge to convey the electricity—even chaos—of the moment within a carefully organized museum space. Yet we have aimed to do just that\, in the hope t hat the visitor will come away from the show with a greater appreciation o f the pivotal role that the creative arts play in tense moments of social and political upheaval.\n\n \;\nArtist: Ganzeer\nGanzeer is the pseudo nym of an Egyptian artist operating mainly between graphic design and cont emporary art since 2007. His art has been shown in Bahrain\, Belgium\, Bra zil\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, Jordan\, the Netherlands\, Switzerland\ , United Arab Emirates\, and the United States\, as well as in myriad Cair o galleries. Art in America Magazinehas referred to Ganzeer’s work as “New Realism\,” and the Huffington Post ranked him among “25 Stree t Artists from Around the World who are Shaking Up Public Art\,” but Gan zeer rejects both labels and regards Bidoun magazine’s description of him as a “contingency artist” as probably the most accurate\, while Ga nzeer refers to his own practice as Concept Pop. Al-Monitor.com has plac ed him on a list of "50 People Shaping the Culture of the Middle East" (20 13)\, and he is also one of the protagonists in a critically acclaimed doc umentary “Art War” (2014) by German director Marco Wilms. Ganzeer is currently based in Brooklyn\, New York\, and he was the subject of a lengt hy profile in the New York Times this summer: Hieroglyphics That Won’ t Be Silenced: Ganzeer Takes Protest Art Beyond Egypt\, by Barbara Pollac k\, July 10\, 2014. His first solo exhibition in the US\, “All-American By Ganzeer”\, opens January 16\, 2015 at the Leila Heller Gallery in N ew York City. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/01/OfCourseSmall_000.jpg CATEGORIES:Community LOCATION:Canaday Library- Bryn Mawr College\, 101 North Merion Avenue\, Bry n Mawr\, PA\, 19010\, United States GEO:40.0263;-75.31286699999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=101 North Merion Avenue\, B ryn Mawr\, PA\, 19010\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Canaday L ibrary- Bryn Mawr College:geo:40.0263,-75.31286699999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR