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Yoshitomo Nara uses paints as their media type to create somewhat autobiographical art that explores their childhood. Nara says that while presenting their artwork in Germany Kindchenschema (the phenomenon of cuteness) is discussed because of the big heads on small figures that shows up consistently in their work; this relates to Nara’s inspiration being their childhood. Nara also says that their style is an expression of being away from Japan because they spent their childhood in a foreign country.
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Samariumsam or Sam is a traditional and digital artist. They use gouache and watercolor to create their signature look. A lot of their art is about their comic. I love the way their colors look and the way they use line in their art.

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I love this artist for their composition and colors. His pieces always have such life to them, and you can get so much story from just looking at them. He is mostly works as an illustrator, but has worked on comics and graphic novels.

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Hayv Kahraman is from Baghdad, Iraq, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA is known for her multifaceted practice, which encompasses painting, performance, and sculpture. Her work addresses radicalized gender and body politics, migrant consciousness, and the marginal spaces of diasporic life, drawing from her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe and then the United States. Kahraman’s canvases feature female figures that she describes as extensions of her own body.

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Jackie Milad is a Muslim American artist based in Baltimore City. Milad uses mixed media in her art like collage and paints to create pieces that explore history and cultural heritage. The pieces above titled “Histories Collide” was inspired by Milad’s study trip to Egypt. She used her immersion in Egyptian history to create art inspired by the prompt “What images and thoughts emerge when myths and histories collide?” With that she used collage to express her thoughts and ideas that answered the prompt.

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She is a NY based Iranian-Kurdish artist whose primary mediums are 3D modeling/printing and video. A lot of her work is about the the effect the West has had on the Middle East. She has studied Digital Colonialism and has done exhibitions, and speeches about it. She has received The United States Artist Fellowship (2021), The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019), The Sundance Institute New Frontier International Fellowship (2019), and the Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine

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Lena Merhej is a children’s book author graphic novelist. Her mother is german and father is Lebanese. She has written and drawn over 25 different book for children. Which talk on her life experience as Muslim women. Her works have been critacly acclaimed and awarded.

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“As an Arab American, I hope through my work, to encourage dialogue and bring understanding and acceptance between the people of the Arab world and the West, especially since 9/11, our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the more recent revolutions and crises in the Arab world, resulting from the ‘Arab Spring’ that began in late 2010, leading to the current war in Syria and the massive displacement of people seeking refuge in Europe, the Middle East, and America.
My work is ultimately about creating empathy and creating a shared space for introspection and dialogue. I ask the viewer to see through someone else’s eyes, to walk in another’s shoes. To accept the ‘other.’ To reject divisiveness. To promote acceptance and understanding and to reject violence and subjugation of anyone anywhere. To give voice to the voiceless, to heal, and to reflect in our shared humanity.”