BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31434@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230826T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230826T200000 DTSTAMP:20230724T193511Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/%d8%b5%d9%86%d8%b9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8 %a3%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%a7-made-in-usa-closing-celebration-photo-po p-up/ SUMMARY:صنع في أمريكا (Made in USA) - Closing Celebration & Phot o Pop-Up! DESCRIPTION:\n\nBoston\, MA\nClosing Celebration &\; Interactive Pop-Up Photo Installation!\n\nJoin us for a night of joyful self-expression to ce lebrate the last weekend of في أمريكا (Made in USA) at Piano Craft Gallery!\n\nCome for our closing celebration for صنع في أمريكا (Made in USA)\, featuring work by Feda Eid\, the Eliot School of Fine &a mp\; Applied Arts 2023 Artist in Residence\, with Teen Bridge Artists Ja cob DePalm\, Elian Feliz\, Hajar El Ayoubi\, Rose Gelin\, and Marie Liza M anigat! We’ll be celebrating the hard work of our Artist in Residence an d our teen Artist In Residence Fellows\, and cultivating a space for joy a nd self-expression in the community. Come for food\, music\, and our inter active pop-up photo installation!\n\nGuests are encouraged to dress up for the celebration! What aspects of your culture or identity do you have to assimilate or diminish in everyday life? In this celebration\, we hope to create a space where people feel safe to explore boundless self-expressio n. Come in an outfit that extravagantly celebrates who you are!\n\nThe exh ibition is an exploration of home\, nationalism\, borders\, pride\, and th e creation of all things made in the USA\, featuring work from Feda Eid's في أمريكا (Made in USA) series alongside the work of a cohort of y oung artists from Boston. Through self-portraits\, still lifes\, and commu nity portraits\, the exhibition interrogates what it means to be American in the “melting pot” of assimilation\, discrimination\, surveillance\, orientalism\, and the dominating negative representations of marginalized groups perpetuated by the state\, societal norms and popular media. What will we continue to plant here? What is the future of all things made in t he USA? Do we have the courage to change\, to transform\, to stitch a new tapestry of collective liberation?\n\nAbout Feda Eid:\n\nFeda Eid is a Leb anese-American visual artist living on occupied\, unceded territory of the Wampanoag\, Nipmuc\, and Massachusett People (Quincy\,MA). Her work explo res heritage\, tradition\, culture\, identity\, and the often tense but be autiful space between what is said\, what is felt\, and what is lost in tr anslation. She captures these emotions through her bold use of color\, tex tiles\, and adornment linking the past and present. As the daughter of Leb anese parents who fled the country's civil war in 1982\, Feda is guided by her family's journey and her own childhood growing up as an Arab and Musl im in the US. She believes in the telling of personal narratives to broade n our perspectives and to ultimately help us feel the universal emotions t hat connect us all. Find more of her work at https://www.fedaeid.com.\n\n About the Artist in Residence Program:\n\nThe Eliot School of Fine &\; Applied Arts’ Artist in Residence program brings in a Boston-based art ist each year to create a body of work with thoughtful community engagemen t at its core\, in collaboration with a group of art-passionate teens from our Teen Bridge program. Teen Bridge is a year-round\, multi-year progr am combining art education and experience\, life skills\, mentorship\, job training\, and employment\, for student artists in our community-based pr ograms.\n\n\n\n\n\nTeen Bridge and Artist in Residence programs are made p ossible through the generous support of The  Adelard A. and Valeda L ea Roy Foundation\, Boston Private Industry Council\, BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors\, City of Boston Department of Youth Engagement &\; Employment\, Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund\, Bank of America\, N.A.\ , Trustee\, The Joe Kalt &\; Judy Gans Family Foundation\, Linde Fami ly Foundation\, Maureen and David Moses Family\, National Endowment for th e Arts\, New England Foundation for the Art’s Public Art for Spatial J ustice program\, with general support from the Barr Klarman Massachusetts Arts Initiative\, Boston Cultural Council\, Mass Cultural Council\, and in dividual donors.\n\nTeen Bridge and Artist in Residence are also funded in part by Boston Public Schools (BPS) Arts Expansion\, a multi-year effort focusing on access\, equity\, and quality arts learning for BPS students. The BPS Arts Expansion Fund\, managed by EdVestors\, is supported by the B arr Foundation\, The Boston Foundation\, Katie and Paul Buttenwieser\, The Klarman Family Foundation\, Linde Family Foundation\, and other individua ls. BPS Arts Expansion is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-24-at-3.08.43-PM.png CATEGORIES:Celebration LOCATION:Piano Craft Gallery\, 793 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02118\, U nited States GEO:42.3387;-71.082019 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=793 Tremont Street\, Boston \, MA\, 02118\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Piano Craft Galle ry:geo:42.3387,-71.082019 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR