The world has been the inspiration for Suzanne Klotz (’66 painting), who has instituted multi-cultural art programs, workshops and exhibitions in Africa, Australia, Israel, Mexico, Palestine, Taiwan, the United States and, most recently Amman, Jordan. In Amman, on a Fulbright Scholar award, she created an art salon and ran a collaborative workshop with Palestinian women and their families who were dispossessed from their homes and were living in refugee camps.
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“Jerusalem” (2011)
Jerusalem represents a walk through what is commonly referred to as the Old City of Jerusalem. The cloth-wrapped bodies symbolize the thousands upon thousands of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military, presently averaging six deaths each day. The concrete slabs portray the Israeli Separation Wall that obliterates the Palestinians’ view of the skyline and—by the Wall’s presence—the forced exclusion from their property, houses of worship, birthrights, and human rights.
[MORE]“99 Names” (2008)
Ninety-nine handmade books, each depicting one of the ninety-nine attributes of God as recorded in the Qur’an and in the writings of major religions. A ceramic form resembling an eye is attached to each cover. Beneath the form is a divine virtue written in Arabic and English. 99 Names affirms the Oneness of religion and provides a framework for introspection and personal accountability.
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