"WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING"
an exhibition by artists Sama Alshaibi and Beth Krensky
Exhibition at Dinnerware Artspace, Tucson, Arizona
April 5th - April 26th 2008 (opening reception on April 5th 7-9pm)
Sponsored by "Conversations Across Religious Traditions"
 Office of the President at the University of Arizona

Previously exhibited at the Mizel Museum, Denver, Colorado
October 11, 2007 - January 24, 2008
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Sama Alshaibi
Born: 1973, Basra, Iraq

 
 

Sama Alshaibi is Assistant Professor of Art in the Photography Department at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Born in Basra, Iraq to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, her photography, video and installations negotiates the shifts between personal, familial and official history, creating a context to understand the impact of war and exile. Her creative research extends into areas of collective trauma and how the role of memory containers (such as art) and memorials are used as vehicles to resist the effacement and obliteration of that history. Recently, her art and research has investigated “borderlands” as critical sites in both physical and pyschological terms. She is co-founder of the 6+ women’s art collective and is represented by La Fabrica, Guatemala. Alshaibi lives Tucson, Arizona with her husband Dr. Marvin Gladney, and their two sons.

CV Highlights

Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, 1999
Masters in Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005

Selected Exhibitions:
Exit Art, New York City, NY, 2007
Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan, 2007
Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, 2007
Burke Museum, Seattle, WA, 2007
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Leticia, Colombia, 2007
Ningxia Exhibition Center, Yinchaun, China, 2007
The University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, South Africa, 2006
The Khalil Sakakini Center, Ramallah, Palestine, 2006
Al Hoash Contemporary Art Gallery, Jerusalem, 2006
Al-Kahf Art Gallery, West Bank, 2004, 2005, 2006
Zero Station, Portland, Maine, 2006
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, 2006
Carl Nelson Gorman Museum, Davis, CA, 2006
Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL, 2006
La Fabrica Arte Contemporaneo, Guatemala 2003-2005
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
Museo De Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2005
St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
El Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española, Antigua, Guatemala, 2004
Salon de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico, 2004
The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, 2003
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO, 2003

Selected Awards:
Feminist Review Trust Award, 2007
Beyond The Call of Duty Award, Deans Office, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona
Pima Arts Council Mini Grants Award, Arizona, 2006
Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern Maine, 2006
Honorable Mention, Camera Arts Magazine, 2005
The National Graduate Seminar Fellow, The Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York City, NY
Goueter Missouri Collection Prize, St. Louis Artist, MO, 2003
Center for Humanities and Arts Fellowship, University of Colorado 2003-2004
Illinois Arts Council Grant, Individual Artist, 2000, 2001

Residencies:
Darat Al Funun, Jordan, 2007
The International Center of Bethlehem, West Bank, 2005

Selected Publications:
Nueva Luz, Volume 12#1 (En Foco Inc: Bronx, NY, 2007)
Social Dynamics, (Routledge : Rondebosch : University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2007)
Palestinian Women Artists, The Land=The Body=The Narrative
(Al Hoash Palestinian Art Court: Jerusalem, 2007)
Refuge & Rejection, (Arizona State University, 2007)
Sultana’s Dream (Exit Art and the SAWArtCollective: NY)
Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers (C.N. Gorman Museum: CA, 2006)
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 27:2 (University of Nebraska Press: NE, 2006)
Haydens Review #39 (Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing: Arizona State University, 2006)