Sarah Ahmad 01/15/2021
Description
Sarah Ahmad shares her life experience and career in art. Sarah Ahmad describes her childhood and the limited but fruitful experiences with art in private school until she was able to attend the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan. At the National College of Art she explains how free she felt and how diverse and socially active the campus was. Ahmad discusses moving to Memphis, Tennessee with her husband where she enrolled in the MFA program at the Memphis College of Art. While in Tennessee she also taught children in public school before receiving her MFA and moving to Tulsa for the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Ahmad describes the ways she uses her art to educate and bring awareness to cultural differences and highlights some of the projects she has had the pleasure of exhibiting around the world, as well as her more recent projects including the Greenwood Art Project on the Tulsa Race Massacre.
| Date(s) | 1/15/2021 |
| Call Number | WIA_002 |
| Subjects | Careers in art, Art projects, International art exhibitions, Immigrant women artists Art--Exhibitions, Art--Study and teaching, Artists, Interviews, Pakistani American women, Tulsa Race Massacre (Tulsa Oklahoma : 1921), Women in art |
| Interviewee(s) | Sarah Ahmad |
| Interviewer(s) | Julie Pearson-Little Thunder |