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This year’s Art Festival is about global
issues but seen by women artists – both
western and eastern ones.The global
issues were divided into two sections:
environmental and social.
A new twist awaited art lovers this year
as classes from preschool until secondary
have been working on ways to translate
global issue – either environmental or so-
cial – into artwork in the style of women
artists.
“It was very difficult,” said Samia Boulad,
the head of the Art Department. “It was a
challenge for both teachers and students.”
What this basically entailed was choos-
ing a global issue and then searching for
women artists whose styles can be imi-
tated in producing the necessary artwork.
“We’ve always wanted to do women art-
ists,” said Boulad. “But we needed a link
between them. A teacher then suggested
global issues as this link.”
Students studied the work of over 24
artists and their styles. Topics included
environmental ones including pollution,
need to recycle, sharing the planet, our re-
sponsibilities towards plants, safeguarding
flowers and birds. Social topics included
self-expression, rights of children, rights
of women, different roles of women,
uniqueness of a person, motherhood,
respect of heritage and the family.
Art Festival
16
SUMMER
2011