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Grant Recipient

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Rachel Winter

Craft Research Fund Grant

2021

A Spectacle of Inclusion: Contemporary Arab Art in the US and England, 1970-2020

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.

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Goleta, CA

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$7,500

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