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Mental Health in the Muslim Community by Abbas Mohamed     During our first year operating as an art nonprofit, it became evident how art can, and does serve a purpose much higher than simply aesthetics and entertainment. Art can address gaps in communities, help heal shared traumas, and inspire people to work towards a...

The Business of Art by Abbas Mohamed   We put out a poll earlier this year in our artists collective’s Facebook group to ask the artists what they were most interested in learning. The majority of responses were related to business, the side to an artist’s practice that they often don’t get to learn through...

Prejudice….is a complicated topic. But what if I said that by the end of this oratory that you will gain a deeper understanding of this issue. Let’s start with some background information. Just the other day I was conversing with this person I had just met. It was going pretty well and I was having...

Since 2016, our young organization, Gathering All Muslim Artists (GAMA) has experimented with different ways of supporting creatives in our community including transforming Halal restaurants into rotating art galleries, merchandising artists prints, auctioning art pieces, organizing learning workshops, and collaborating with peer Muslim institutions to create spaces for artists to thrive and experiment. Our programs...