A cooperative Arab-Jewish children's project led to the creation of this peace sculpture, now permanently installed in the Peace Garden at Seattle Center, in the shadow of the Space Needle.  Under the direction of project founder Amineh Ayyad, Palestinian-American, and local Iraqi Artist Sabah Al-Dhaher, Arab and Jewish children came together for many weeks to create this sculpture.  The project was sponsored by The Arab Center of Washington, The Middle East Peace Camp (an Arab & Jewish children's summer camp), Kadima (a progressive Jewish community), and the Iraqi Community Center.

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Sabah Al-Dhaher directs the installation of the sculpture

SABAH AL-DHAHER, sculptor and artist born in Nasriyah, Iraq.  At the age of fifteen he was accepted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, Iraq, where he lived and received his training in classical art, graduating first in his class in 1989.  Al-Dhaher fled Iraq in 1991 due to his involvement in a failed uprising against the regime of Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf war.

After spending over two years in a refugee camp in the desert of Saudi Arabia he came to the USA as a political refugee in 1993. He now lives in Seattle with his wife and son. Al-Dhaher has taught stone carving at the annual International Stone Sculptor’s Symposium at Camp Brotherhood in Mt. Vernon, WA   since 1998, and currently teaches stone carving at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. 

 Al-Dhaher brings his classical training to his work.  His interpretation of the natural potentials waiting inside marble, granite, and bluestone reveals his artistic vigor.  Contrasting highly polished areas with masses of roughly finished stone, he pulls from it supple forms, allowing the natural texture and tones of the media to suggest his subject’s life beneath the surface.

To learn more about Sabah, please visit www.aldhaher.net.

 

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