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Palestine
“A Bite of the Moon” (2023)
74″ x 50″, canvas, hand embroidery, beading, acrylic.
During the night of an eclipse of the moon a Palestinian children’s custom was to form a parade marching through villages to the highest hill while drumming on pots and pans in an effort to ward off a whale from taking a bite of the moon.
Begun in 2019, the artwork’s imagery incorporates segments of Palestinian embroidery design, known as Tatreeze, and an embroidered map of original Palestine identifying the major villages.
[MORE]“Seven Women’s House Keys” (2013-14)
The “Seven Women’s House Keys” project (2013-14)
Seven Women’s House Keys is a tapestry-painting that combines traditional and contemporary Palestinian embroidery designs and needlework. The five by seven foot canvas incorporates remnants of traditional Palestinian hand embroidery (representative of specific villages in Palestine) created in an art salon composed of Palestinian women in Jordan.
[MORE]Kansas City Arts Institute magazine Alumni Profile
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.
[MORE]“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.
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