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IRAP 3rd Annual Fundraising Dinner Highlights
On Saturday, June 9th the GAMA NY team helped organize IRAP's third annual fundraising dinner taking place at Agora Gallery. GAMA artists donated their work for the cause of refugee assistance, from as far afield as California, Michigan, and Oklahoma! ⠀⠀ Proceeds of the benefit auction benefited the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), the first organization to provide comprehensive legal assistance to refugees displaced by conflict in the Middle East...
My Strength Through Art
My childhood wasn’t one encouraged to be artistic. Growing up with a single mum and a ‘stepguy’ with drinking problems, later on being married to the wrong person, having children, raising them on my own and all the hard times that come with it.. haven’t allowed me much room for creativity. From a very young age, I have always felt that I had something in me. Something special that only...
A Delicate Balance
Ihsan. It’s part of our DNA - the urge to create beauty, the hunger to experience it, and the immediate awestruck state when we encounter it. Every cell in our bodies starts to pulse in sympathetic harmony, sometimes to the point of tears. A sunset, a song, a work of art, a story or film that touches us deep in our core. This impulse lies at the very center of...
Spiritual Ramifications of Art
I wish to discuss the spiritual power and ramifications inherent to visual art, and by extension, the responsibility held by those who create it. I reflect on two examples from my own experience which includes two of the most widely known masterworks over the last 500 years and how these experiences shaped my own religious understanding and identity. It is common for us to build meaning from the narratives that...
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