art Festival

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 social – 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 choosing a global issue and then searching for women artists whose styles can be imitated in producing the necessary artwork. “We’ve always wanted to do women artists,” 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 responsibilities 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.