A seminar presented by Mr. Muhammed Sharaf titled “Designer Identity”. Mohammad Sharaf is a Kuwait-based designer and the director of Sharaf Studio. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and another bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. He later earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sharaf is interested in social and political symbolism and specializes in visual identity, typography and editorial design. In 2011, he started a series of works entitled “Visual Reactions” which he used to communicate his views on rising local, regional, and international issues. His latest work, “Cemetery of Banned Books”, was a public art intervention created to protest against censorship in…

“When a Letter is Missed” by Dr Ali Ashour al-Jafar and Mr Jassim Mohammad Mi’raj. “When a Letter is missed” is a work written by Ali Ashour, where he explains what happens when letters are missing from an alphabet. The work includes some calligraphy by the calligrapher Jassim Mi’raj which supports the text harmoniously.  

A seminar by Jassim al-Nashmi titled: Re-Negotiating Identity. In this talk, al-Nashmi traces his journey of bouncing between art, architecture, and furniture, and how his career has been a meandering path rather than a straight one. By negotiating the identity of his region as well as his own through his work, al-Nashmi combines everything he’s learned from schools of thought around the world into one practice. Jassim F. al-Nashmi holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from ETHZürich and Iowa State University where he spent a semester at London’s AA, and has exhibited artwork in the USA, UK, Brazil, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, at galleries/museums like Jameel Arts Centre…

” ندوة شيًقة بعنوان “” نقاط وسطور”” يقدمها جاسم النصرالله تحاكي ندوة نقاط وسطور رحلة فنون الخط والطريق الذي سلكه جاسم النصرالله حتى اصبح خطاطاً بارزا في منطقة الخليج. اثناء رحلته، وضع كثيراً من النقاط بعد عثرات كثيرة سادها بعض التشتت، وعدم وضوح في الرؤية. ليبتدي بعدها سطور جديدة، صاحبتها انجازات وتحديات ساهمت بتشكيل تجربته اليوم والتي أعتبرها مجرد انطلاقة وولادة جديدة لرؤيته الفنية للخط العربي. السيرة الذاتية: ابتدأت رحلة جاسم النصر الله بتعلم الخط ضمن تطبيقات خارجه عن اطار المدرسة التقليدية المتعارف عليها، على يد أخيه الكبير، وهو بسن السابعة من عمره، استمر بالتركيز على مطابقة أشكال حروف خط الثلث على اسلوب الخطاط هاشم البغدادي من خلال التعليم الذاتي.…

A seminar titled ‘Forty-two Years of Documenting Kuwait’ by Claudia Al-Rashoud. In 1979, at the age of 22, Claudia Farkas Al Rashoud became Kuwait’s first professional female photojournalist at the Arab Times newspaper. Join her as she talks about photographing and interviewing film stars, fashion designers, royalty, an astronaut, and entrepreneurs on the one hand, and on the other hand, Kuwait’s last master bedouin weavers, shipbuilders, sea captains, and pearl divers. Find out why Kuwait’s desert environment and animal welfare are among her major areas of concern. Finally, learn about how her photographic work here began in the chaotic conditions of a newspaper darkroom, and have come full circle, with…

A seminar titled “Nature Lover”, presented by Mr. Bakr Musa al-Bakr. The seminar focuses on agriculture and green nature. It summarizes the agricultural journey of Mr. al-Bakr, starting in the 50’s, in Kuwait.