
Current Crisis
The Year 2020 has been eventful. I have created many works that have been inspired by current events. I call these series Current Crisis:2020
The Year 2020 has been eventful. I have created many works that have been inspired by current events. I call these series Current Crisis:2020
My project “Our Earth: Embracing All Communities” is almost complete now. I have done 40 paintings inspired from 40 verses from the Quran that guide
The Tent-We Are All One I am invited by Farhat Art Museum to create a tent for refugees with my art. The museum has plans
The PAL Gallery, sponsored by the Alameda Education Foundation (AEF), was inspired by the Rhythmix Performance, Art & Learning (PAL) program, to bring together visual
Oakland Asian Cultural Center has released an online exhibition of my paintings ” Memory Vignettes and Poem Painting series” and an interview in my studio
East Bay Community Foundation has awarded Individual artist grant for my project “Our Earth: Embracing All Communities.” Feeling blessed as now I can focus on
With canvas and Quran, one artist aims to make Islamic calligraphy a universal language Berkeley artist Salma Arastu uses Islamic calligraphy in a nontraditional
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/02/05/rhythmix-to-honor-alamedas-lost-japantown-on-feb-19/ Rhythmix to honor Alameda’s lost Japantown on Feb. 19 Date community’s Day of Remembrance for internship under FDR; exhibit, poetry planned Previous Next courtesy
The Word: Visual Interpretations by Muslim Women Artists from the Bay Area “The Word: Visual Interpretations by Local Muslim Women Artists” at Arc Gallery https://www.arc-sf.com/the-word.html
My works are lyrical, spiritual, figurative, and calligraphic. My paintings reveal stories of unity in diversity, peace and joy, celebration of life, and women and dancing whirling dervishes. Whether in paintings or sculptures, the faceless figures in my work represent the universal oneness of all humanity. My calligraphic work attempts to celebrate the same message of universality spread through verses in Arabic calligraphy and in the poetry of Rumi. Read More
Salma Arastu Studio
2547 8th Street Studio #37
Berkeley, CA 94710
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