January 16th
3-5 pm
Zoom
Registration for this lecture is free but limited to 100 particpants, so reserve your seat today!
Wafa Ghnaim is an American-born Palestinian businesswoman, writer, and artist. Palestinian tatreez embroidery is a centuries-old art form passed down from mother to daughter. Wafa began learning Palestinian embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, when she was two years old. She decided to pursue her and her mother’s lifelong dream of writing a book about Palestinian embroidery designs, meanings, and traditions which resulted in her self published book, "Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora" released in June 2018.
In 2018, Wafa was awarded the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in the folk arts discipline. In 2019, she became the first-ever Palestinian embroidery instructor at the Smithsonian Museum, and has lead a growing tatreez revolution that has created a global collective of embroiderers, allies, students, designers and artists in service of preserving and elevating Palestinian embroidery traditions in the diaspora.
Wafa currently resides in Washington, DC.
Zoom information will be sent to registrants closer to the event date.
