Virtual Artist and Storyteller Talk with Jaafar Alnabi & Eynas Alnabi

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Tuesday, Aug 3, 2021  6pm

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Join us for a FREE talk with Home of Memories artists and storytellers. This virtual event will be held over Zoom.

Photographer Jaafar Alnabi is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on filmmaking and visual effects. He is a 2016 graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, filmmaking BFA program. He moved to Minnesota in 1996 and is now based in New York City, working between NYC and Minneapolis.

Storyteller Eynas Alnabi was born in Iraq and left at age 4 due to war sanctions. After living in a refugee camp, she came to the U.S. in 1996 and has lived in Minnesota ever since, graduating from St. Catherine University with a bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Management. She is currently working at Methodist hospital as a hospital operations supervisor and plans to go back to school for her masters degree in the fall of 2022. Eynas is a mother of two.

About the exhibition:

The Rochester Art Center welcomes the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project (IARP) to present a travelling exhibition exploring homemaking and memories in the portraits of Iraqi Minnesotans by Iraqi Minnesotan photographers Ahmed Alshaikhli and Jaafar Alnabi. Curated by CarryOn Homes (Peng Wu, Shun Jie Yong, Zoe Cinel), the exhibition will be held at the Rochester Art Center in the CityView Gallery from May 19, 2021 to August 29, 2021. The portraits and stories featured in Home of Memories give us a complex and intimate portrayal of what home was, is, and what it can be. We invite visitors to reflect on the theme of home by bringing a photograph to be collectively displayed on a journey wall along with a shared memory.

For more information, visit rochesterartcenter.org/exhibition/home-of-memories/