Category: Art
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Calling all Arab & SWANA illustrators and comic artists!
ترجمة عربية Mizna, the only Arab lit and art journal in the United States, is seeking submissions for a special Comix Issue. This issue will be guest edited by Palestinian graphic novelist Leila Abdelrazaq. We are seeking comics submissions by Arab and SWANA artists living anywhere in the world responding to the prompt of A New World…
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#MiznaAtHome: Curated List for Keeping Up with SWANA Culture During Lockdown
Mizna is pleased to share a curated list of resources from organizations around the world for keeping up with SWANA culture during lockdown.
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Introducing #MiznaAtHome
As routines shift and we find ourselves spending more time at home than we ever anticipated, art is an essential respite. During this uncertain and frightening time, our small Mizna team is more grateful than ever for the artists, readers, audiences, and community we are fortunate to be a part of. The arts community is…
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The year’s best Twin Cities art exhibitions were diverse and international
History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary was included in the Star Tribune’s “best of 2019 arts and entertainment” roundup.
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New York Mills: a visual art exhibition + indie film screenings
COVID19 UPDATE: The reception on March 20 has been cancelled. The NYMCC gallery is implementing “soft close” this week with shorter hours while they clean the space. If someone wants to see the show, they will be allowed in. All events at NYMCC are postponed or cancelled for the rest of the month. Stay tuned…
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Getting Out: Mn Artists Guest Editor Moheb Soliman
Moheb shares the following introduction to his series, titled “Getting Out”: “Art,Bye bye. Hello real life. Goodbye translation; hello interpretation. Hello experience and thought unrendered; hello satisfaction or distress on the first order. Hello people, the people, by millions. Hello wilderness- fecundity, without people and art. Hello lucid utility or recreation versus incessant re-creation; hello…
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Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness Featured in Star Tribune
Art exhibition at SooVAC rejects ‘Middle East’ in favor of a more inclusive community. SWANA is meant as a corrective to “Middle East,” a Western, colonialist term. Defining the region along geographic rather than political lines, its borders stretch from Morocco in the west to Afghanistan in the east, embracing a broader swath of countries,…
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History Is Not Here Featured in ArtAsiaPacific
“In addition to bringing works by an international roster of artists to the Twin Cities, ‘History Is Not Here’ affirmed the important role that Mizna, the only publication of its kind in the United States, has played in contemporary discourse related to art and literature of the Arab and Arab-American diaspora.” History Is Not Here:…
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Deeper Half Blue Listening Session
Listen to the playlist: This programming was conceived as an extension of Joe’s piece The Deeper Half Blue, for the group exhibition History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary. An incredible assembly of artists participated in this session: Sagirah Shahid, Pedram Baldari, Dua Saleh, David Mura, George Abraham, and Samer Saem Eldahr, and…
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St. Cloud State University: a visual art exhibition + indie film screenings
This January, Mizna is partnering with SooVAC to bring contemporary arts programming by SWANA artists + filmmakers to greater Minnesota. Visual arts exhibition Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness will travel to St. Cloud (January 30–February 27, 2020) and New York Mills (March 4–April 4, 2020), accompanied by a selection of notable films from…