Help sustain a community arts workshop in Camp Smara!
Founder of Motif, Mohamed Sulaiman Labat at work.
Clamp made from discarded Range Rover parts
MOTIF Art Studio & Workshop is the first of its kind in the Sahrawi Refugee Camp Smara in SW Algeria.
The mission of Motif is to engage in projects that focus on the core theme (or "motif") of arts-and culture-based projects related to self-determination and the perpetuation of sustainable communities/life ways for the Saharawi in the Western Sahara refugee camps located in SW Algeria.
Motif founder Mohamed Suliaman is an internationally known artist living in the 40+ year old refugee camp of S'mara located in SW Algeria. Through a global and intercultural collaboration Motif seeks to foster community impacts focused on strengthening and perpetuating sustainable communities in the Sahrawi Refugee camps. The community has been profoundly impacted by colonization, forced exile, assimilation, and the loss of cultural knowledge and practices. They work with the arts to counter this history and to vision a way forward.
In this photo, Mohamed is laying the initial foundation of the studio in Camp S'mara(April 23, 2016). Motif needs your support to purchase supplies that will be used by the community for arts-based projects aimed at fostering creativity as well as sharing, supporting and growing cultural knowledge and practices.
For more information on MOTIF check out the facebook page and Instagram as well as Mohamed's recent publication, A Temple of Art in the Middle of the Desert: Reflections on Creating Motif Art Studio: The Role of Art in The Sahrawi Refugee Camps included in the book, Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment.
Interested in supporting MOTIF?
THANK YOU/SHUKRAAN!
The mission of Motif is to engage in projects that focus on the core theme (or "motif") of arts-and culture-based projects related to self-determination and the perpetuation of sustainable communities/life ways for the Saharawi in the Western Sahara refugee camps located in SW Algeria.
Motif founder Mohamed Suliaman is an internationally known artist living in the 40+ year old refugee camp of S'mara located in SW Algeria. Through a global and intercultural collaboration Motif seeks to foster community impacts focused on strengthening and perpetuating sustainable communities in the Sahrawi Refugee camps. The community has been profoundly impacted by colonization, forced exile, assimilation, and the loss of cultural knowledge and practices. They work with the arts to counter this history and to vision a way forward.
In this photo, Mohamed is laying the initial foundation of the studio in Camp S'mara(April 23, 2016). Motif needs your support to purchase supplies that will be used by the community for arts-based projects aimed at fostering creativity as well as sharing, supporting and growing cultural knowledge and practices.
For more information on MOTIF check out the facebook page and Instagram as well as Mohamed's recent publication, A Temple of Art in the Middle of the Desert: Reflections on Creating Motif Art Studio: The Role of Art in The Sahrawi Refugee Camps included in the book, Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment.
Interested in supporting MOTIF?
THANK YOU/SHUKRAAN!
For ArtsAction Group projects in the camps see our Western Sahara project page.
