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AbdelFattah Abu-Srour

AbdelFattah Abu-Srour created Al Rowwad Children's Cultural and Theatre Training Center in Aida refugee camp, Palestine, in 1998 to give the children of the camp opportunities to express themselves through the visual and dramatic arts. He was born in Aida and his parents were 1948 refugees from the village of Beit Natif, southwest of Jerusalem.


Muhammad Abu Zreik

Muhammad Abu Zreik is an artist who was born in Palestine but lives in Hittin refugee camp near Amman in Jordan. He has exhibited throughout Jordan. He has written a book on Palestinian art in Arabic.


Fred Askew

Fred Askew is a freelance photographer based in New York City. His work is published internationally in journals, newspapers and magazines.


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Matt Cassel

Matt Cassel is a photographer and activist from Chicago, whose work is currently being exhibited in the show "Occupation" at Che Cafe in Chicago.


Rajie Cook

Rajie Cook, a Palestinian artist born in New Jersey, lives and works in Pennsylvania. He is a graphic designer and sculptural assemblage artist whose poster work is available in this auction.


Cosmo

Cosmo is an underground protest cartoonist on New York City's Lower East Side.


Susan Fateh


Susan Fateh is known as a printmaker and paper-maker. She has created art-books with her own handmade paper. She has had numerous one-artist shows and is represented in museums. She is of Iranian/Scotish descent and lives now in Italy.


Kyle Goen

Born in Bakersfield, California, Kyle Goen currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Majoring in painting, he received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1992. His work has been exhibited in several shows in New York and California. Mr. Goen's work figures in the collections of several prominent collectors, including the Giorgio Armani Private Collection in Milan, Italy.


Freda Guttman

Freda Guttman is a peace activist and an installation artist born in Montreal where she still lives. She is a member of the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation. In more than forty years of active research and practice, her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and internationally.


Samia Halaby

Samia Halaby is a Palestinian artist born in Quds prior to the nakba. She has taught in American universities for seventeen years ending with ten years at the Yale School of Art. She is the author of "Liberation Art of Palestine." Her work is on display in museums around the world, and she has been featured in numerous one-artist shows internationally.


Zahed Harash

Zahed Harash lives and works in the town of Shafa Amer in Al-Jallile (Galellee) under the Israeli government in that part of Palestine occupied in 1948. Harash has been an activist for Palestine for many years and has distinguished himself as a writer on Palestine. His work is published in Al-Ittihad. His work was exhibited in New York at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center.


Gita Hashemi

Gita Hashemi is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural activist, writer and educator. Her formal arts training started at the School of Fine Arts, Tehran University, and after leaving the Islamic Republic, continued at CSUN, California. She left the United States in 1991 in protest against the first war on Iraq, and has since been residing in Toronto, Canada, where she has worked in theatre, film, video and digital media. She has been involved in many community art projects in Iran, the U.S. and Canada, and has served on the boards of a number of artist-run organizations. Hashemi is a founding member of the Post-Exile Collective and Creative Response, and the founder of IAD (Iranian Artists in Dialogue).


Susan Hudson

Susan Hudson lives and works in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She has moved here recently from Montreal, where she was Chairperson of the Department of Design Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University for several years. She has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada.


Nidal El-Khairy

Nidal El-Khairy is a Palestinian artist and painter based in Montreal, Canada.


Farsad Labbauf

Farsad Labbauf was born in Iran. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. Labbauf has participated in more than 40 group shows nationwide including showings at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York, the Downey (CA) Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Science and Technology. He has also had two one person exhibitions of his work at Kingston Gallery in Boston (MA.) Among the list of publications where his work has appeared are The Philadelphia Daily News, Artspeak, and The Wall Street Journal. His pieces are in the hands of numerous distinguished collectors including the Walt Disney Company. Labbauf will be showing at the Jersey City (NJ) Museum in the fall and currently lives and works in the New York.


Amanda Levin

Amanda Levin is an organizer for Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights in Montreal, a student in Urban Studies, and Socioeconomic Development at McGill University , an organizer for CEPAL, The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, and Al-Huda. She currently lives and works in Montreal. She is also a makeshift poet and artist.


Tracey Luszcz

Tracey Luszcz is a teacher, poet, community activist and photographer whose work on Cuba, protests against police brutality and the anti-war movement was exhibited in "Documenting the Peace Move/meant" earlier this year in Jersey City.


Conor McGrady

Conor McGrady was born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1970. He studied at Cumbria College of Art and Design in Carlisle, UK and at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, before receiving his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. In 2002 he was selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2003 he completed a five-month residency in the Woolworth Building, New York, through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils Studio Program. He currently lives and works in New York.


Nabeel Muaddi

Nabeel Muaddi is a Palestinian artist living in Pennsylvania. His paintings focus primarily on political and religious statements about situations in the Middle East and how western outsiders have affected them.


Kevin Noble

Kevin Noble was an active member of Hallwalls Gallery, an artist run non-profit gallery in Buffalo NY from 1975 -1981. He has had one person shows of his work, which includes painting, video and photography, at Hallwalls, Cepa Gallery, Artists' Space, The Kitchen, White Columns, and File an Phoblacht, Belfast, Ireland. He has also shown in group shows at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The New Museum, The Alternative Museum, the Cannon Congressional Office Building in Washington, D.C., Grand Central Station in New York and the Galway Arts Center in Galway, Ireland. He is a founder and is currently active with Culture & Conflict Group.


Eric Ringsby

Eric Ringsby is a multi-media artist and author living in Colorado. His Anti-Occupation Art parallels the histories of Native Indians and Palestinian people. Eric has taught at the Chicago Art Institute, University of Wyoming and won the Mexican National Prize for Installation Art in 1997.


Melina Rodrigo

Melina Rodrigo is a New York City - based graphic artist who uses illustration and design to address various social and political issues.


Rouzbeh

Rouzbeh is a graphic artist and designer, and creative and art director of RB Studios.


Mary Tuma


Textile artist Mary Tuma received her MFA in Fibers from the University of Arizona Tucson, and currently holds the rank of Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Tuma's materials and techniques are driven by the development of concept and context.


Lisa Volta


Lisa Volta is an artist and activist living and working in Philadelphia. She completed her undergraduate work and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art. Volta is a member of Artists Against the Occupation and has spoken at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania on using fine arts as a means to expose social and political injustice and genocide, specifically concerning the issue of Palestine. She is currently curating her third exhibition about Palestine, which is scheduled to open in September of 2004 at the AFSC Friends Center in Pasadena, California.


Mizuko Yakuwa


Mizuko Yakuwa is the founder of the Artists Against the Occupation, an international collective of artists inspired by the successful mid-1980s project, "Arts Against Apartheid." She was born in Sendai, Japan in 1947. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in Japan. She has exhibited in group shows at various galleries & museums around the world.


Palestinian children

The children of refugee camps in Palestine and Lebanon reveal the realities of life under occupation and oppression in these beautiful drawings. Donated from the collection of Samia Halaby.