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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230826T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230826T200000
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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/made-in-usa-closing-celebration-pho
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SUMMARY:(Made in USA) - Closing Celebration & Photo Pop-Up!
DESCRIPTION:Closing Celebration &amp\; Interactive Pop-Up Photo Installatio
 n!\nJoin us for a night of joyful self-expression to celebrate the last we
 ekend of في أمريكا (Made in USA) at Piano Craft Gallery!\nCome for
  our closing celebration for صنع في أمريكا (Made in USA)\, feat
 uring work by Feda Eid\, the Eliot School of Fine &amp\; Applied Arts 2023
  Artist in Residence\, with Teen Bridge Artists Jacob DePalm\, Elian Feliz
 \, Hajar El Ayoubi\, Rose Gelin\, and Marie Liza Manigat! We’ll be celeb
 rating the hard work of our Artist in Residence and our teen Artist In Res
 idence Fellows\, and cultivating a space for joy and self-expression in th
 e community. Come for food\, music\, and our interactive pop-up photo inst
 allation!\n\nGuests are encouraged to dress up for the celebration! What a
 spects of your culture or identity do you have to assimilate or diminish i
 n everyday life? In this celebration\, we hope to create a space where peo
 ple feel safe to explore boundless self-expression. Come in an outfit that
  extravagantly celebrates who you are!\n\nThe exhibition is an exploration
  of home\, nationalism\, borders\, pride\, and the creation of all things 
 made in the USA\, featuring work from Feda Eid's في أمريكا (Made i
 n USA) series alongside the work of a cohort of young artists from Boston.
  Through self-portraits\, still lifes\, and community portraits\, the exhi
 bition interrogates what it means to be American in the “melting pot” 
 of assimilation\, discrimination\, surveillance\, orientalism\, and the do
 minating negative representations of marginalized groups perpetuated by th
 e state\, societal norms and popular media. What will we continue to plant
  here? What is the future of all things made in the USA? Do we have the co
 urage to change\, to transform\, to stitch a new tapestry of collective li
 beration?\n\nAbout Feda Eid:\nFeda Eid is a Lebanese-American visual artis
 t living on occupied\, unceded territory of the Wampanoag\, Nipmuc\, and M
 assachusett People (Quincy\,MA). Her work explores heritage\, tradition\, 
 culture\, identity\, and the often tense but beautiful space between what 
 is said\, what is felt\, and what is lost in translation. She captures the
 se emotions through her bold use of color\, textiles\, and adornment linki
 ng the past and present. As the daughter of Lebanese parents who fled the 
 country's civil war in 1982\, Feda is guided by her family's journey and h
 er own childhood growing up as an Arab and Muslim in the US. She believes 
 in the telling of personal narratives to broaden our perspectives and to u
 ltimately help us feel the universal emotions that connect us all. Find mo
 re of her work at https://www.fedaeid.com.\n\nAbout the Artist in Residenc
 e Program:\nThe Eliot School of Fine &amp\; Applied Arts’ Artist in Resi
 dence program brings in a Boston-based artist each year to create a body o
 f work with thoughtful community engagement at its core\, in collaboration
  with a group of art-passionate teens from our Teen Bridge program. Teen B
 ridge is a year-round\, multi-year program combining art education and exp
 erience\, life skills\, mentorship\, job training\, and employment\, for s
 tudent artists in our community-based programs.\n\nTeen Bridge and Artist 
 in Residence programs are made possible through the generous support of
  The  Adelard A. and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation\, Boston Private Indu
 stry Council\, BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors\, City of Boston Depar
 tment of Youth Engagement &amp\; Employment\, Deborah Munroe Noonan Memori
 al Fund\, Bank of America\, N.A.\, Trustee\, The Joe Kalt &amp\; Judy Ga
 ns Family Foundation\, Linde Family Foundation\, Massachusetts Charitable 
 Mechanic Association\, Maureen and David Moses Family\, National Endowment
  for the Arts\, New England Foundation for the Art’s Public Art for Sp
 atial Justice program\, with general support from the Barr Klarman Massach
 usetts Arts Initiative\, Boston Cultural Council\, Mass Cultural Council\,
  and individual donors.\n\nTeen Bridge and Artist in Residence are also fu
 nded in part by Boston Public Schools (BPS) Arts Expansion\, a multi-year 
 effort focusing on access\, equity\, and quality arts learning for BPS stu
 dents. The BPS Arts Expansion Fund\, managed by EdVestors\, is supported b
 y the Barr Foundation\, The Boston Foundation\, Katie and Paul Buttenwiese
 r\, The Klarman Family Foundation\, Linde Family Foundation\, and other in
 dividuals. BPS Arts Expansion is supported in part by an award from the Na
 tional Endowment for the Arts.
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CATEGORIES:Arab American,Art,Community,culture,Discussion
LOCATION:Piano Craft Gallery\, 793 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02118\, U
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