Have you tried contacting any embassies of Arab
Nations here in the States to see if perhaps they
might be willing to contribute to the funding or any
"benevolent" groups that support Islamic causes?  I'm
thinking that they might be willing to contribute to
curtail the "backlash," but I don't know if you would
wind up with other problems (government,
misunderstanding public, etc.).



--- Julie Moore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Re improving public perception of Arabic
> cultures...I had been planning for
> years an exhibition entitled "Religion, Spirituality
> and the Object" for
> this fall in which I was going to show handcrafted
> liturgical objects that
> had been created by many world religions (including
> Islam--I was going to
> show calligraphy, garments and rugs to emphasize the
> importance of religious
> belief and religious objects to daily life in the
> Islamic world, a concept
> that is unfamiliar to us in this country).  Well,
> the funding fell through
> (big surprise) and I was forced to cut back severely
> on the scope of the
> project. We decided to focus on Islamic calligraphy
> to present an idea of an
> art form important to Islamic culture and religion,
> and are presenting a
> two-hour program about the history and forms of
> Islamic calligraphy as well
> as a one-day hands-on Islamic calligraphy workshop
> with a local graphic
> designer who is Islamic and an expert on such things
> as part of his
> profession.
>
> If anyone is interested in the project as a whole
> (which encompasses eight
> weeks, six exhibitions and eleven public programs,
> and religions ranging
> from Catholicism to Sikhism) I will be glad to email
> you a synopsis.  We
> open it on November 14 and it runs through January
> 18.
>
> Julia Muney Moore
> Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
> Indianapolis Art Center
> 820 E. 67th St.
> Indianapolis, IN  46220
> (317) 255-2464 x233
> FAX (317) 254-0486
> email <[log in to unmask]>
> website <http://www.indplsartcenter.org>
>

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