Opening. Reception
January 16th
7 - 9:00pm

Beit/Home ─ Palestine: Existence and Resistance features works by ten Palestinian artists as well as four artists who have worked in Palestine.  Also included are poignant drawings and paintings by Palestinian children from the West Bank and Gaza. 

The work displayed in Beit/Home is powerful and fearsome.  Donated by the artists, the pieces are deeply expressive of the Palestinian homeland and its century-long suffering.  The exhibition aspires to introduce the art of Palestine to our community, and to raise funds for several Art and Youth programs in the Askar Refugee Camp in the West Bank in Occupied Palestine. Tragically, children in Gaza cannot, at this point, participate, though their need for relief, art and pleasure is acute.

The exhibition was curated by Jennifer Heath and Margaret Haydon on behalf of the Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project. These pieces tell the stories of Palestine, which desperately need to be heard. 

Jennifer Heath is an independent scholar, curator, award-winning activist and cultural journalist, She is the author/editor of sixteen books of fiction and non-fiction, among them  A House White With Sorrow: Ballad for Afghanistan, The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics and, most recently, The Jewel and the Ember: Love Stories from  the Ancient Middle East. She has traveled broadly, and a visit to Palestine was the inspiration for her popular traveling exhibition, Parallel Paths – Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish. Other touring exhibits include The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces and Water, Water: Paean to a Vanishing Resource. She is a member of the Cost of War project at Brown University and donates regularly to various human rights organizations.

Margaret Haydon earned her MFA in Ceramics in 1989 from San Francisco State University, after which she developed an active studio practice and a long teaching career.  She retired as Professor Emeritus of Ceramics from the University of Wyoming in 2021.  Post retirement, Haydon maintains an active studio practice in Boulder, Colorado.  Haydon is currently a member of the Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project where she works with others to raise awareness of and support for Palestine.  She regularly donates partial proceeds from the sale of her work to PCRF, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.  Her most recent solo exhibition, CRUCIBLE, was installed at the LCCC Esther and John Clay Fine Art Gallery in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  

The Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project is a people-to-people initiative working to link citizens in Nablus, Palestine with those in Boulder, Colorado. The groups in both cities consist of students (middle-school, high-school & university), entrepreneurs, farmers, artisans, medical professionals, professors, directors of non-profits and cultural centers, artists, engineers, yoga teachers, and so much more. The Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project fosters relationships through cultural, educational and professional exchanges, inspiring lifelong friendships that promote understanding and peace through person-to-person “citizen diplomacy.”

Painting by Helen Zughaib

Website: https://bouldernablus.org/