Teaching Artist Fellowship

Meet the Fellows

Cohort 3

September 2024 – February 2025

Aya Afaneh

Aya Afaneh

Aya Afaneh (b. 1999) is a Palestinian artist, with an interdisciplinary visual practice spanning performance, printmaking, sculpture, and writing...

Sarah Ahmed

Sarah Ahmed

Sarah Ahmed is a Networking & Security graduate, and a creative based in Abu Dhabi. She is the founder of Jaffat El Aqlam...

Tarek Elkassouf

Tarek Elkassouf

Tarek Elkassouf is a Lebanese-Australian artist based in the UAE. He explores the concept of balance after transformation...

Cohort 2

February 2024 – August 2024

Eman Al Hashemi

Eman Al Hashemi

Eman Al Hashemi (b. Dubai, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around impossible tasks, waiting, repetition...

Majd Alloush

Majd Alloush

Majd Alloush is a Syrian artist whose work spans multiple disciplines including printmaking, sculpture, photography, moving image...

Nasser Alzayani

Nasser Alzayani

Nasser Alzayani is a Bahraini-American artist (b.1991, Manama, Bahrain) living and working in Abu Dhabi...

Cohort 1

September 2023 – February 2024

Athar Jaber

Athar Jaber

Athar Jaber was born in Rome, Italy, in 1982 to Iraqi artists Afifa Aleiby and Jaber Alwan. He grew up between Rome, Florence...

Chafa Ghaddar

Chafa Ghaddar

Chafa Ghaddar was born in Lebanon and currently lives in Dubai. She graduated from Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts...

Mahshid Rafiei

Mahshid Rafiei

Mahshid Rafiei works in sculpture, installation, and drawing. Her practice considers the ways a process, a material and an image...