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Ramadan came and went - Allahuma Baligna Ramadan - I visited DC and NY/NJ in Ramadan and Chicago last week, where I attended the Cusp Conference as a volunteer, a conference about "the design of everything". I took photos (and of Chicago too) and will have them up soon God willing. I was blessed to have met some very amazing people throughout my travels. Each time I go somewhere new, or even if I've been there before, it shows me how much I can learn, and bring back to my community to apply.
It made me think of my place in this world as an artist and as a designer and as a community member - who grew up in an active family and neighborhood, and I asked myself some very important quesitons:
What can I design and change for the good, the components of our community? Do I want to stay on an art and design diet in the strictest sense? What if I redefine what art/design mean to give attention to much-needed areas in our community?
I'm hungry.
It made me think of my place in this world as an artist and as a designer and as a community member - who grew up in an active family and neighborhood, and I asked myself some very important quesitons:
What can I design and change for the good, the components of our community? Do I want to stay on an art and design diet in the strictest sense? What if I redefine what art/design mean to give attention to much-needed areas in our community?
I'm hungry.
Detroit, Cars and MLK jr.
We got the opportunity to visit the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn last weekend. We were supposed to go to the Greenfield Village but a funny change in plans worked out for the better alhamdulillah. This was after I slathered on tons of sunscreen, wore clothes that looked like they were from the 19th century, and my dad wore his cool old-tyme looking boots, haha. We were trying to fit in with the scenery. :D
I thought the museum was going to be a bunch of cars...which it was, but it wasn't so bad! Going through the historical progression from sleighs and wagons, Henry Fords model-T, all the way to future cars and jet planes was quite fascinat
Studio Romm'ana
So, the studio! Wussup with that?
Spring 2010: I was graduating. Sadaf wanted to get back into traditional artwork after a couple years of art education and added experience in Curatorship. Jessica was in the middle of her graphic design degree, and Asmah chose to take a non-art degree (in Linguistics and Japanese...legit! mA), but still wanted to practice and work on her art. We wanted to do more than what our labels contained for us.
But get real. We live in Toledo, right? It's an average post-industrial Midwestern town, greatly affected by the recession...which I often find ravaged with complacency. If things werent goin for you...you we
Photography
So I've finally started to upload all the photos I've taken in the last few months - a pretty daunting task. I was debating between Picasa and Flickr but I ended up with flickr because it has more of a community feel, which is always a good thing for feedback/criticism, and it has a good deal of $25 per year... which isn't so bad. I've reached my free limit already, and it was barely half of what I wanted to upload. And they are making the layout more user-friendly which is a big plus. The reason I don't want to upload all my photos to dA is because I feel that dA is more suitable for more traditional artwork...plus there's no batch uploading
June Recap
The past couple of weeks have been crazy! Per the last update, I was in Chicago for the Streets Festival - which was amazing and will have photographs from there up soon. It was this summer festival, with 4 stages of mostly every single Muslim artist in America and from outside of America as well, as well as artists of other faiths. (minus Kareem Salama, I think he's still on his tour...thats the excuse I'm going to give because otherwise it would be "he's country" and I believe everyone really likes country secretly, but they also just like to hate on it ;) it was great to meet so many different people who make such different types of art.
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