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Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist.


Personal background

Born in 1944, in Cairo to Iraqi parents,Khalid is a Ceramicist, calligrapher, and painter who lives and works in the United States.She is recognized as a "prominent Arab American female artist"and a "specialist in Islamic art"


Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions have been held in Beirut, 1966, 68, and 70; Florence, 1967; Abu Dhabi, 1976; Jedda, 1981; Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983; London, 1984 and 85; Al-Khubar, Saudi Arabia, 1990;
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, 2001. She participated in the group exhibition ''Forces of change'' presented in 1994 at the
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, Washington, where her work was described as "abstract expressionist".


Educational pursuits

Her doctoral thesis in the history of Islamic art from Harvard University, ''Beyond the symmetries of Islamic geometric patterns : the science of practical geometry and the process of Islamic design'', made a "pioneering use of tessellation theory for the analysis of angular interlacing patterns". She directed and designed the book '' Issam El-Said: Artist and Scholar'' published in 1989 by the Issam El-Said Foundation. She taught and published on Islamic geometry. She is an instructor at the Ceramics Program of the Office for the Arts at
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. Museums Her ceramic pieces have been acquired by notable museums around the world such as: The British Museum; The Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where a 2019 gallery re-install includes a video interview with the artist alongside one of her pieces; Harvard Art Museums /Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger, Arther M. Sackler Museum; Beit Al Qur'an, Bahrain, among others.


See also

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Arabesque The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Another definition is "Foliate ...
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Iraqi art Iraqi art is one of the richest art heritages in world and refers to all works of visual art originating from the geographical region of what is present day Iraq since ancient Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian periods. For centuries, the capital, Baghd ...
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Islamic art Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslims, Muslim populations. Referring to characteristic traditions across ...
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Islamic calligraphy Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of penmanship and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the Arabic script#Additional letters used in other languages, alphabets derived from it. It is a highly stylized and struc ...
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List of Iraqi artists The following is a list of important artists, including visual arts, poets and musicians, who were born in Iraq, active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter. Note: This article uses Arabic nami ...
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List of Iraqi women artists This is a list of women artists who were born in Iraq or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Najiba Ahmad (born 1954), poet *Kajal Ahmad (born 1967 Kirkuk), Kurdish-Iraqi poet *Firyal Al-Adhamy (born 1950), painter *Reem A ...


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External links


Art by Chorbachi at Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

An Islamic Pentagonal Seal
coauthored by Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi in ''Fivefold Symmetry'',1992
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi, by Raquel Wharton Rohr excerpted from vol 1. number 3 Spring 2009 of Sgraffito, the Harvard Ceramics Program newsletter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chorbachi, Wasmaa Khalid 1944 births American people of Iraqi descent American women painters American women ceramists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Iraqi calligraphers Iraqi ceramists Iraqi women painters Iraqi painters Living people Women calligraphers Iraqi women ceramists 21st-century American women