ARTIST STATEMENT
Seeking to understand suffering found in the spaces of our collective being and my own personal being is where my art exploration resides. Whether it be a raw self-reflective journey or an intense examination of historical and current states of oppression, this contemplation guides my work as I create three-dimensional mixed media art pieces. In my very recent work, I find myself gliding into the intersection of text and found objects as I negotiate the use of metal, paint, and other mediums. “Sweeping Away… Pain” is a reflection on humanity searching for hope and looking for moments of joy to survive our current sorrows of pain and suffering.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Farah Art Griffin is the recipient of the Arts and Accessibility Grant from the National Arts & Disability Center, the Library Travel Grant Award from the University of Chicago’s Center for East Asian Studies, the Countering Hate with Art Grant, the Wake Forest University Travel Grant for Library Research Award, the Harvardwood Heroes Grant, the Charleston Research Fellowship from the College of Charleston, and the Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant at Cornell University. She is also the recipient of a fellowship from the Hemera Foundation, a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her art piece “The Internment of Our Humanity” is part of the permanent collection of the WWII Japanese American Internment Museum. Farah holds an Ed.M. in Arts in Education from Harvard University.
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