by monique_oss | May 16, 2021 | Covid 19 Pages Featured Artists
Mina Akbari is from Iran, a country carrying a rich culture and history in the chaos of the Middle East. In her paintings, she uses contemporary visual language to represent her interpretation of Iranian-Middle East history and culture. Mina’s paintings allude to the...
by monique_oss | May 16, 2021 | Covid 19 Pages Featured Artists
Shirley Monestier is an African-American artist and art collector living in Bordeaux, France. She first ventured into the art world in 1992, when she moved to France and enrolled in the Municipal School for Arts and Plastics in Taverny, France. Shirley’s...
by monique_oss | May 7, 2021 | Covid 19 Pages Featured Artists
Born in Beijing and settled in France for twenty years, Yu Zhao received dual training in Western and Chinese arts. Her encounter with contemporary dance, from which she draws its approach and philosophy, was decisive to her art. Yu has also passionately researched...
by monique_oss | May 7, 2021 | Covid 19 Pages Featured Artists
Born and raised in China, Filiz Li moved to Montreal, Canada in 1999. She studied and worked there for several years. In 2007, Filiz moved to Istanbul, Turkey, where she is learning and practicing Ebru – the UNESCO-heritage-listed Turkish art of marbling. On...
by monique_oss | Sep 27, 2020 | Literacy
Through your gifts for our Reading Never Stops literacy initiative, Bloom Academy Charter School in Houston, TX has received over 1000 books from WIF for its Kindergarten-2nd grade classroom libraries since January 2020! By March 2020, Bloom students had...