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Spotlight: Emerging Artist in Residence Safa Youness

Time and Date: Saturday, November 16, 2024, 12pm-2pm

Location: Windsor Public Library, John Muir Branch

Cost: Free

The 2024 RBC Emerging Artist in Residence is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.

Join Palestinian artist Safa Youness for a conversation about our collective journeys to and through Turtle Island. Folks will have the opportunity to meet over hummus and pita and receive care packages with the ingredients to make their own hummus at home. Participants are encouraged to come with open hearts and an appetite for conversation and good eats! 

 

Safa Youness is the current AWE RBC Emerging Artist in Residence. The RBC Emerging Artist in Residence (EAIR) is a paid opportunity for emerging artists in Windsor-Essex who want to learn, grow, develop, and show their art while engaging with the public. The Emerging Artists will have the opportunity to focus on making their art and share their skills and experiences with the public in a series of programs or activations. The 2024 RBC Emerging Artist in Residence is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.

 

Image: Safa Youness, Communal Eating in Grandparents Living Room. Image courtesy of the artist.

Questions? Please contact Niku Koochak, TD Curatorial Fellow at nkoochak@artwindsoressex.ca

 

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The 2024 RBC Emerging Artist in Residence is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.

Meet the Artist: Safa Youness (صفا يونس)

Safa Youness (صفا يونس) – is a Palestinian artist contending with the reality of living on the stolen land of Turtle Island.

To remember and express the joy (سعادة), resistance (مقاومة) and steadfastness (صمود) of her loved ones, familiar and unfamiliar, she reflects on photographs taken by her family members during the 1970’s in the refugee camp of Ein El-Hilweh, south Lebanon. She centres the experience of Palestinian life in diaspora following the Nakba – her family’s history of displacement in Lebanon. Her work is a practice in remembrance.