AUTHOR

Aisha Tida Abbassi

Aisha Tida Abbassi (عائشة تيدا aisha tida) is a cultural worker and TASAWAR Curatorial Fellow based between Houston and Tunis. She collaboratively employs alternative forms of education and creative intervention to engage children and young adults in the many places she calls home. Her work lies at the intersection of art, design, and civic action and is grounded in the themes of heritage and diaspora, art as social practice, and the making and breaking of patterns.

In her artistic and curatorial work, Aisha explores the creative potential of togetherness when contemporary and community arts converge, co-creating with artists and initiatives whose aesthetic practice is a tool for community-building in search of justice. She seeks to discover what art, curation, and intersectional education can offer in the further development of individual awareness, collective identity, and a more equitable future.

FORMATION

2020 | Online | Creative Facilitation 1 | Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE)
2020 | Tunis.tn | Digital Shift: Artists’ Lab | INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project
2019 | Tunis.tn | Goethe-Institut | TASAWAR Curatorial Studios
2016 | Ithaca.NY.us | Cornell University | Bachelor of Fine Arts

PHOTO
Kevin Villalobos

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