COVID-19 PAGES Featured Artist – SHIRLEY MONESTIER
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...
COVID-19 PAGES Featured Artist – YU ZHAO
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...
COVID-19 PAGES Featured Artist – FILIZ FEI LI
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...
Bloom Academy is Blossoming
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...