BAGHDAD / IRAQ

Group show / exhibition and workshops with 10 artists – Baghdad, Iraq and Paris, France.

After attending the Iraq Cultural Forum in Baghdad in December 2013, and a recent travel in October 2015 Work in Progress is now working with the artists association on a traveling Exhibition and several interesting international shows that we will bring to Baghdad, and in addition a workshop for Yazidi and refugee women to learn the art of patchwork quilting… both therapeutic and also a help for their economic survival.  We are in addition organizing and the financing for the establishment of an active archive of Iraqi art and artists since 1800. By developing and empowering both the artistic community and the arts industry in Iraq it will further stimulate and encourage civil society to participate in rebuilding its war and occupation damaged cultural life.

On the same level, Work In Progress is also actively working in Baghdad, Iraq to present Iraqi artists in Europe and is supporting the erudite Muwaed AL Bassam in his efforts to write and publish the modern and contemporary archives of Iraqi Fine Arts and Literature. He is an old venerable man, journalist and art critic, and this is his life’s work was slowed down and oppressed by occupation and war.