Palestine Lives!
A 3D Virtual Experience
This virtual exhibit brings together diverse voices and artistic perspectives to celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and contemporary creativity.
Project Overview
This virtual exhibit brings together diverse voices and artistic perspectives to celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and contemporary creativity. Through immersive digital experiences and curated collections, we invite you to explore stories of resilience, identity, and cultural pride.
Featured Artists
The Artists
Meet the artists whose work and stories bring this exhibit to life!
Janna Ramadan
Janna is a Palestinian raised in the U.S. Her work largely centers on the Palestinian diaspora, exploring politicization, cultural heritage, and identity formation. Predominantly a writer, she more recently began exploring tatreez and visual art as a site of sumud.
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Karen Tamminga-Paton
Karen’s art is an invitation into speech; paintings that begin with questions and evolve into conversation. They are a hearing of the suffering in Palestine, a move toward the capturing of grief and suffering through honest imagery. Then, a resolve to not turn away from bearing witness and ongoing justice. Her work is an appeal to our shared humanity, to awaken compassion, to hear into speech the trauma of dehumanizing oppression.
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Noura Al-Qasasia
Noura Al-Qasasia is a 26-year-old Palestinian artist and fashion designer, born in Germany and based in Gaza.Over the past year, her work has focused on shedding light on the lived realities of the Palestinian people, exploring themes of displacement, migration, loss, and resilience. Through her art, she seeks to preserve and emphasize Palestinian identity and its cultural significance as a form of resistance.
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Cynthia Hussein
"My work exists between abstraction and realism, combining expressive brushstrokes, florals, and soft storytelling. As both a medical student and artist, I am drawn to the balance between structure and emotion, creating vivid pieces that feel intimate, alive, and dreamlike."
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Eleanor Brennan
Eleanor Brennan is a visual artist and art teacher living and working on the west coast of Ireland. She holds an Honours degree in Fine Art and a Masters in Art Therapy. "My art practice explores the inner world and visual storytelling. I am fascinated with the psyche and the human condition and in how the image can be used like a poetic lens through which visual stories can be told, reflective of what is present in the psychological experience."
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GWS
G is a multi-talented, interdisciplinary artist and co-founder of BEYONDEEP productions. Through vibrant, original work across fine and digital art, G creates magic and spreads love, empowering the world with every creation.
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Mohamed El Metmari ︳محمد المطماري
Mohamed is a painter and researcher in the arts and humanities based in Morocco.
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Jaguara
Jaguara is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, designer, and storyteller currently based in Copenhagen. Her work moves between painting, installation, symbolic narrative, sound, and digital media, exploring themes of transformation, migration, femininity, memory, survival, and emotional reconstruction.
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TouzaniXMrabet
Je m’appelle Aya, et je ne suis rien d’autre que la somme de mes ombres et lumières.Je suis faite de plusieurs terres, de plusieurs langues, de plusieurs silences. Entre ici et ailleurs, j’apprends à habiter cet entre-deux, là où l’identité ne se choisit pas toujours, mais se construit, se questionne et se réinvente.Je ne cherche pas les visages, ni les poses. Ce qui m’attire, c’est le brut : les paysages, la nature, le moment présent là où personne ne reconnaît la présence d’un objectif photo, ce qui existe sans chercher à plaire.
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Leo
I am a queer, trans, and disabled multi-media artist, with a special focus in digital art. I'm based in the US, and currently using my art to help cover my college expenses (I'm studying art therapy). My art focuses a lot on my interests, and the art that I create highlights themes of queer love, social justice, and rebellion.
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Mahmoud Al-Muqayad
"Hi, I’m Mahmoud, a photographer and sound engineer from Gaza. The war and blockade have forced me to stop working as an artist, making it impossible to pursue my passion or build a stable future.I dream of living in safety, rebuilding my life, and continuing my education, which has been interrupted by these difficult circumstances.I also have a collaborative project with the talented artist Isabelle Spohn, and I’m working to sell our joint artwork. All the proceeds from the sales will go towards funding my journey to escape these challenges and continue my artistic career.Through my GoFundMe campaign, I hope to raise enough funds to escape this harsh reality and start anew."
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Fedaa Boqaileh
"I am a self-taught Palestinian visual artist and illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. It has been an honor to be part of this incredible project.My work explores heritage, storytelling, and human connection. Drawing inspiration from Middle Eastern art, traditions, music, and memory, I create expressive pieces that blend cultural symbolism with a contemporary visual language.For me, art is both a form of storytelling and a way of processing emotions, experiences, and the events that shape us."
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Sara Tayeh
Gazan artist blending symbolic imagery, distorted forms, and intense color to convey emotional depth. My work transforms lived experience into visual language, using symbols to express what words cannot. I explore themes of alienation, occupation, and resilience through expressive compositions. Rooted in personal and collective memory, each piece becomes an act of witnessing and survival
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Kholoud Hammad
"I am an artist and graphic designer based in Gaza, working across digital and traditional media. My practice focuses on expressive visual storytelling, translating lived experiences, emotion, memory, and the realities around me into visual form.Art is my language when words fall silent."
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Abdelrahman Sharaf
Abdelrahman is an Egyptian contemporary artist born in Cairo in 1997. He graduated from the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University in 2020, specializing in Drawing and Painting.
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Qamar Hassan/Q
Qamar AKA “Q” is a Syrian artist who was born and raised in DMV. Their work is characterized by a wide range of different forms and mediums, all which come together to center their main theme: resistance. Their central message? Make resistance irresistible. Their work fearlessly creates with a purpose, each piece designed to make a statement.
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Klara Jarova
"Hello there, I am Klara. Born in Czech Republic and residing in the mountains of Colombia. I am a mother, coffee farmer @fincasagrado, passionate about nature, sustainable living, social justice & equality for all human beings, and art."
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Nahshon Joshua
(born 1995) The Kansas City received a B.F.A. from Kansas State in '20. Nahshon concentrated in painting and printmaking. Since 2020, they have been creating multi-media work focused on spirituality, Black identity, and Afro-futurism. From a vibrant color palette to poetry, they tackle socio-political issues with a speculative lens.
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Selfless Orchestra
Formed in 2018, Selfless Orchestra was a collaborative emergence of musicians from the creative community of Perth, Australia, born with the manifesto of creating spaces in which hope and despair co-exist, where audiences can be educated and inspired about issues of social and environmental justice through poetical musical performance.
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Alyssa Putri Polito
After completing her BA in anthropology and working as a California archaeologist for a few years, Alyssa wanted to earn her Library Information Science degree to advocate for her community. She found the Palestinian people's resilience inspiring and wanted to help create a space to display the many wonderful art pieces.
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Aelma Azad
Aelma Azad is a visual designer focused on visual development and storytelling, using art as a form of advocacy and expression. Inspired by South Asian art traditions, her work explores culture, identity, and world-building through animation and digital art. Her short film Fighter Kites, inspired by Palestine, reflects her commitment to socially conscious storytelling.
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The Team
James England
lead organizer
"My name is James England; NYC-born Musician, Photographer, and proud member of Create Humanity/Art For Palestine as an advocate for the oppressed"
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Daniela Pereira
LEAD ORGANIZER & COMMUNICATIONS
"I'm Daniela, a Co-Founder of Create Humanity. Born and raised in Queens with Colombian and Puerto Rican roots, I'm passionate about education through creativity, community development, and cultural exchange. I studied neuroscience in university and now work across both healthcare and the nonprofit arts space, using creativity and collaboration to foster connection, learning, and meaningful community impact."
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Alyssa Polito
design & research
Alyssa was born in Indonesia and grew up in Southeast Asia before moving to Las Vegas as a highschool student. After completing her BA in anthropology and working as a California archaeologist for a few years, Alyssa wanted to earn her Library Information Science degree to advocate for her community. She found the Palestinian people's resilience inspiring and wanted to help create a space to display the many wonderful art pieces.Alyssa lives in California, with her husband and three cats: Cinnamon, Plumeria, and Clementine (who are all very good cats).
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Samar Ayesha
PR/ Design
Having worked in the field of creative communications for over 17 years, Samar has a degree in Cultural Studies & Journalism & postgraduate studies in Publishing & New Media. She developed her interest in design & digital art through her experience of brand consultancy & communications training. An advocate for human rights & equality, she has wholeheartedly shown her support for the Art For Palestine Campaign & hopes to continue sharing her creative vision on future projects.
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Rujvi Gondalia
"Hi, I'm Rujvi. I'm honored to be a part of this project and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with this creative team. Working alongside such a talented team has been an amazing experience, and I'm so excited to help bring this creative vision to life."
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Inner Hero Arts
"Hi everyone! This is Inner Hero Arts! I am so honored to be part of this gallery advocating with our Palestinian brothers and sisters!"
Learn more →Art for Palestine is a program of Create Humanity Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.