E-GALLERY: Paintings and other Visual Art Media
Islamic History Month Canada is inviting visual artists to send us creative work related to IHMC to be shown free in exhibitions for one year -- from October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008 -- on our E-Gallery.
Please make sure your submissions reach us before October 1, along with a brief (300 words) autobiography/artist's statement and contact information. Please state clearly the personal information about yourself that you wish to be made public (such as web site, email address, phone number, etc.).
The maximum number of submissions per person is five (5). Copyrights remain the sole property of the creator of each submission; they are not transferred to IHMC. Here is the format to follow:
Accepted Paintings and other Visual Art Media: Photographic images of original paintings and artwork
should be submitted in high-resolution JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format.
Gloria Kagawa
Canadian printmaker Gloria Kagawa works from her studio in Baden,
Ontario, near Kitchener-Waterloo. An accomplished printmaker, she
has exhibited widely internationally, with shows in Canada, Germany
and Japan. Her work is found in many private and public collections.
Kagawa's style draws on complex patterns of iconography, but
influences of the Islamic world and its architecture often appear in
her work. That effect is subtle in works like Oasis or Emerald
Garden, with their suggestions of Middle Eastern screens and
enclosed gardens, combined with flora from the area around Kagawa?s
home in southwestern Ontario. It is foregrounded in the Aqaba
Series, with its images of Islamic architecture. In the Cairo
Series, colours of the desert and Euclidean shapes combine in
accomplished prints.
More of Kagawa's work can be viewed on her website: www.gloriakagawa.com
Turkish Garden
by Gloria Kagawa
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Urban Series - Emerald Garden by Gloria Kagawa |
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Urban-Series - Oasis
by Gloria Kagawa
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Aqaba
by Gloria Kagawa
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Aqaba Series - Night Watch by Gloria Kagawa |
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Cairo Series - Kings and Things by Gloria Kagawa |
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Mythical Series - Another Good Age by Kagawa
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Mythical Series - Journeys End by Gloria Kagawa |
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** More artwork by Gloria Kagawa is shown as part of Judith Miller's poem listing |
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Ibrahim Shalaby
If it is true that "you can take the man out of the village but you
cannot take the village out of the man," it must also be true that you
can take Dr. Ibrahim Shalabi out of Jerusalem but you cannot take
Jerusalem out of Dr. Ibrahim Shalabi’s heart and soul. The two are
destined to complement each other.
When he was asked to describe his relationship with Jerusalem, Dr.
Shalabi said: "I don’t dwell in Jerusalem, but Jerusalem dwells in me."
He went on to address the Holy City by saying: "Although I am living far
away from you, you never left my memory. I have always adored your
captivating vision and fallen in love with your eternal beauty. How
often I was carried away on the wings of longing to your gates, your old
lanes, yearning for a chat with members of the extended family, for a
short stay with old friends to reminisce about the ‘good old days,’ and
to submerge myself in the depths of your enchanting history, so that I
may quench my perennial thirst for the flower of all cities, for the
beloved ones who dwell on her mesmerizing terrain. You live in my soul
and in my whole being, day and night, in my sleep and in my awaking. I
walk through your narrow streets, flirt with your balconies, anchor on
your windows, exhilarated by the call to prayer emanating from the
minarets of your mosques and the bells of your churches."
Dr. Shalabi’s paintings are a living testament to his enduring love for
the generous land of Palestine, its tenacious people, its deep sorrows,
its luminous hopes and shining dreams.
It was not for nothing that the renowned Syrian artist Sherif Moharram
described Dr. Shalabi’s artistic work as "a dancing river poem,"
celebrating as it does the joys and tribulations of Palestinian life,
transcending the experience of its own creator, and speaking for the
millions of displaced people all over the world who have lived suspended
between their old and new worlds.
by Ibrahim Shalaby
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by Ibrahim Shalaby
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by Ibrahim Shalaby
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by Ibrahim Shalaby
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by Ibrahim Shalaby
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by Ibrahim Shalaby
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by Ibrahim Shalaby
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Please send your literary and artwork submissions before October 1, 2007 to: gallery@islamichistorymonth.com
IHMC exhibit adjudicators reserve the right to decline any submissions that do not meet sufficient aesthetic and/or technical standards for online display.