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Posting: May 10, 2021
Tag: RAW Talent 

The Gallery at VCUarts Qatar dedicated an entire issue to Raw Talent.

We did this because we know raw talent is prized. Especially when it’s been identified, yet remains untapped; when it’s been nurtured, yet retains its fervor.

We’ve done the identifying and nurturing for you – the raw talent of our Graduates is untapped, agile and exploratory. Our Alumni are broadening their horizons and immersing themselves in the possibilities that diverse networks bring them.

• BFA + MFA 2021 Online Exhibition
• Get to know me better! Discover what the VCUarts Qatar graduates 2021 have to say!
• Fashion Designer Juan Hernandez Daels selects Safa Al-Hadithi’s collection
• Designer Aisha Al Sowaidi selects the unique work of Zainab Al-Shibani
• Awarded Interior Designer Virginia Lung selects Maryam AlKuwari’s project
• Urban strategist Jason Twill recognizes the work by Amna Yandarbin
• Interview with Sarah Mohammad, Valedictorian
• Interview with Aia Zaina, Salutatorian
• Interview with Somaia Dorzadeh, Class Champion
• Interview with Nia Alexander Campbell, MFA Class Marshall
• To My Youngself with Maryam and Yousef Ahmed Al-Homaid
• The Alumni Factor: Dimitri Yuri
• The Alumni Factor: Reema Abu Hassan
• The Collaborator Profile: Hadeer Omar
• True story: I was a Tasmeem co-chair
• Our Correspondent from VCU: Curator’s Pick Marisa Stratton
• The Creative List 

Posting: Sept 1, 2021
Tag: Community Spirit

Artists and designers in this first issue signpost themselves with powerful tools of expression.

They choose to unlock the potential of people who have otherwise felt unheard, or unseen. Their personas resonate with the social affiliation they have with their communities; their words and actions confidently declare that inclusion can be stylish too.

For this breed, one’s identity is more than a collection of eye-catching clothes or images; more than the insular efforts to be exclusive. Rather, they represent the collective force born from connections forged through ideas, art and design.

• Wear The Right Exhibition
• Reflections from the ’80s by Bene Taschen
• In Focus: Nous Sommes Halles by Mohamed Bourouissa
• Beurcore Culture: ? by Sara Sadik
• The Mirror – Périphérique by Simon Njami
• Streetwear is Dead; Long Live Streetwear by Ali Khan
• Arab Women and Street Art by Aya Tarek
• Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series: Luca Marchetti
• Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series: Yara El-Sherbini
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Prem Krishnamurthy
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Elegance Bratton
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Dr. Alice Sheppard
• The Correspondents Series: on the lookout by Shaima Ayoub
• The Alumni Factor: Al-Maha (Oryx) Streetwear Jewelry by Rabab Abdulla’ 19
• Collaborator Profiles: Ali Khan
• Tasmeem Doha 2015: Are you 3ajeeb?

Posting: Jan 1, 2022
Tag: Remembering Home

Discover our new exhibition and lectures through artists and designers who create opportunities for affiliation and recognition that contribute to diasporic collective memory. Their narratives show solidarity as resilience through the construction of imaginaries by the art of documenting, collecting and archiving.

Read our stories that prove that nostalgia can be restorative sometimes, and redefine the meaning of home.

• What is Home to You? – Solo Exhibition by Mohamad Hafez
• The Landscapes of Arabia – Exhibition by Camille Zakharia and Tarek Al-Ghoussein
• In Conversation: Layla Ibrahim Bacha and Mohamad Hafez
• In Focus: Camille Zakharia
• Odysseus: Tarek Al-Ghoussein by Dina Ibrahim
• This Broken World: Kader Attia by Marisa Angel Brown
• Rebuilding memories of flight and nostalgia by Varvara Keidan Shavrova
• New Exposure by Daniel Berndt
• Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series: Jonah King
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Laure Prouvost
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
• The Correspondents Series: A longing for Home by Shaima Ayoub
• The Alumni Factor: A modern twist to traditional wear in a global world by Lauren Morell
• Tasmeem Doha 2017: Analogue Living in a Digital World

Posting: March 1, 2022
Tag: Futuristic Narratives

Artists and Designers in this issue are creative storytellers spinning alternate narratives, acting like ‘archeologist of the future’ – crafting stories, objects and experiences that let us peek where we will go, where we have been like a path of breadcrumbs guiding us towards tomorrow. They lead the march toward the future with new visions, and often lean on innovation to propel their progress.

We all want to see the future – do you want to join us?

• Futurisms – Exhibition curated by Ingrid LaFleur
• In Focus: Alisha B. Wormsley
• In Focus: Jasmine Murrell
• In Focus: Hyphen-Labs
• In Focus: Saba Taj
• In Focus: Saks Afridi
• In Focus: Ingrid LaFleur
• In Conversation: Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann and Ingrid LaFleur
• Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series: Lucy McRae
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Lauren Lee McCarthy
• Wavelength Lecture Series: Jenn Nkriu
• The Correspondents series: A Vision, For Qatar by Mohammed Faraj Al-Suwaidi
• The Correspondents series: Traveling the cosmos by Shaima Ayoub
• The Alumni Factor: Cultural Misfits
• Tasmeem 2022: Radical Futures