The art of resistance, empowering young women in Hebron

The Alternative Information Center has launched a campaign to fund their Art is Resistance program, which annually assists 40 young women from Hebron in developing their artistic capabilities while sharing their perspectives on beauty, art and personal expression. In a fundraiser, AIC said that the program offers participants the opportunity to develop their “tools of expression [and] to help them cope with the violent reality of their surroundings, while strengthening their creativity and artistic senses, building confidence in their abilities and helping them produce their own art.” The Art is Resistance program started in 2007, and aims to promote social, political and cultural voices of Palestinian women as they envision and voice their ideas to create a future that is “free of Israeli colonial occupation and violence.” The program also arranges two exhibitions per year in Hebron, which the AIC says is “an integral part of the program, providing participants the opportunity to publicly share their art with the wider community.”