Art in Context Lecture: Unfinished Journeys with Helen Zughaib & Opening Reception

Description

Brief reception to follow with free wine/beer bar.

Helen Zughaib is an Arab American painter and multimedia artist. Her work mostly consists of colorful gouache paintings that are meant to represent Arab identities and invoke and encourage feelings of empathy, hopefulness, and understanding. Her art surrounds topics and themes of Arab heritage and culture, the Arab Spring, and the emigration and displacement of people in the Middle East. She also uses her work as an outlet for sharing her personal experiences as an Arab American woman who grew up in Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East. 

Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums internationally, as well as in many public and private collections such as those of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, American embassies in Baghdad and Iraq, and has been gifted to multiple heads of state, including President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.