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Craft Research Fund Grant
2021
This dissertation interrogates the institutions which facilitated the rise of contemporary Arab art in the US & England. Winter argues contemporary Arab artists in diaspora emerged in opposition to historically-oriented displays of the Arab world conveyed through craft at festivals for cultural diplomacy.
Selected works
Ethel Wright Mohamed (1906-1992), Unnamed embroidery commissioned for the 1976 Festival of American Folklife c. 1975-1976, Cloth (Muslin, cotton threads, metallic floss). Textile: 5’ x 2’ Made in Belzoni, Mississippi Material Culture Collection, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, MCC 211. Photograph by Zvonimir Bebek Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution.
Program Cover for the 1976 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, featuring embroidery by Ethel Wright Mohamed 1976 Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Photograph by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution.
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Drummers at the 1974 Festival of American Folklife (either as a part of African Diaspora or Old Ways in the New World) 1974 Washington, D.C. Photograph by Reed & Susan Erskine Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution.
Dancers from Scandinavia as part of Old Ways in the New World at the 1974 Festival of American Folklife 1974 Washington, D.C. Photograph by Reed & Susan Erskine Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution.
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