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Making Young Artists Visible

  • September 16, 2013
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Frustrated by how corruption has stymied life in Baghdad, 19-year-old artist Sejjad Abbas scaled a high-rise building to have his own creative say. On the building’s façade, which faces the fortress-like Green Zone where Iraq’s elite live sealed off from their country’s violence, he painted a giant eye and the words “I can see you.”

Though Abbas was soon forced to remove the mural, his public “eye witness” stirred up “a lot of dialogue,” says Rijin Sahakian, founding director of the arts organization Sada which supports the development of young Iraqi artists, including Abbas. “Using public space is both part of the content of Abbas’ work and a necessity,” she added, since gallery closures and lack of support for artists have limited the spaces accessible for creative work.

Sada counters this isolation through online courses, education programs, and plans for an independent production space in Baghdad. In dire cases, it also helps artists like painter Bassim al-Shaker escape persecution.

For more info – www.sadairaq.org

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Jennifer MacKenzie

Poet, writer and teacher Jennifer MacKenzie grew up on Bloomcrest Dr. in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which inspired her to wonder about places with patterns other than floral. Following her education at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, she followed a zig-zag course that included a pilgrimage across the top of Spain and a long sojourn in Syria in pursuit of the language of Muhammad al-Maghout and Moudthaffar al-Nawwab. While in Damascus she completed the books of poems "Distant City" and "My Not-My Soldier" (forthcoming from Fence Books) and edited the magazine Syria Today. Her poems and essays can be found in numerous journals including the Kenyon Review online, Guernica, Quarterly West, and Lungfull. She currently lives in New York.

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