The Academy of Arts will host the exhibition and prizes for the “Our Lady of Al-Aqsa... Resilience and Struggle” competition, sponsored by Dr. Maya Morsi, President of the National Council for Women, and Dr. Ghada Jabbara, President of the Academy of Arts, starting on Monday, July 1, 2024 at 4.30 pm at the Higher Institute of Art Criticism at the Academy of Arts. The exhibition comes in the presence of Dr. Rania Yahya, Rapporteur of the Arts and Literature Committee of the National Council for Women and Dean of the Higher Institute of Art Criticism, and witnesses the distribution of prizes for the Our Lady of Al-Aqsa Competition, which was announced by the Arts and Literature Committee of the National Council for Women. It is an artistic competition that expresses the suffering of Palestinian women under the title (Our Lady of Al-Aqsa - Resilience and Struggle). ) in the fields of (drawing, engraving, oil painting, and sculpture), in cooperation with the Fine Artists Syndicate and the Higher Institute of Art Criticism at the Academy of Arts. Dr. Rania Yahya, a member of the Council and Rapporteur of the Committee, explained that the competition aims to present a message of solidarity with Palestinian women by highlighting their suffering in light of the Israeli aggression through the arts, which is considered a universal language that transcends borders and languages.
The conditions for nomination for the competition included that the nomination be in only one of the four previous fields through the Council’s official page on its social networking sites and the Council’s official website, taking into account filling out a form at the Higher Institute of Art Criticism and submitting a CV, and that the applicant’s age should not be less than 18. One year or more, and the contestant must submit one work of art, and the work must be original and creative by its owner (not copied or adapted from another work and not won in any competition), and the painting must be equipped with all its contents for display and hanging, and the sculpted works must be ready for display.
