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Refugee Art describes..... the term was coined by

Art by and for refugees
There are many programs that work with the arts and refugees. They fall into several categories. There are programs that work with refugees currently in refugee camps. Some use artists who are themselves refugees. Some are art therapy programs, working with children and/or adults to help them deal with trauma associated with their situations. Others promote the art and skills of people who were already artists or artisans before they became refugees. Some programs work with current refugees or those who have found homes in other countries, using traditional art and crafts as a way to preserve their home cultures and pass them along to their children and future generations. And there are classes that combine refugees and locals in order to encourage mutual respect and cultural awareness.

There are also many artists, living and no longer alive, who were refugees at a previous time in their lives.

Mosaik Center, Lesbos, Greece
==== Mercy Corps https://www.mercycorps.org/ headquartered in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. offers art therapy projects in many countries, including Greece, http://reliefweb.int/report/greece/providing-hope-young-refugees-greece ,Haiti, https://www.mercycorps.org/events/finding-place-street-art-displaced-youth-syria-and-gaza Gaza, some for refugees, some for impoverished communities. ====

Refugee Art Project http://therefugeeartproject.com/home/ The Australia based Refugee Art Project has sponsored
many projects relating to refugees and art in Australia. STILL ALIVE was an exhibit of original artworks by asylum seekers and refugees. The exhibition featured artworks by asylum seekers and refugees from such countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Burma. Their website features an extensive selection of art by refugees on a variety of themes.

Za'atari Refugee Camp
https://joelartista.com/syrian-refugees-the-zaatari-project-jordan/

Za'atari Camp in Jordan is the world's second largest refugee camp, housing approximately 100 thousand refugees from Syria. New York based activist/artist Joel Bergner, with a team of Syrian refugees, artists and educators has worked in partnership with aptART, ACTED, UNICEF, ECHO and Mercy Corps to create large scale murals within the camp.

Castle Art
A former Iraqi prison used by the late Dictator Saddam Hussein is now a Syrian refugee camp named Akree, aka “The Castle. Within Akree Camp is an art program

HarmonyArt Collective Sydney
Harmony Art Collective in Sydney Australia is a project that brings together young immigrants and refugees with well known street artists, like HaHa, Beastman, and Kaff-eine to product street art.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/17/the-young-refugees-making-beautiful-murals-together
haha  http://regantamanui.com/bio.html

beastman http://www.beastman.com.au/ max

Artists Who Were Refugees

 * Ludvig Mies Van der Rohe


 * Max Ernst


 * Mona Hatoum


 * salvador dali


 * joseph and anni albers


 * Frank Aurbacak,


 * Michael Barishnikov


 * Safdaar Ahmed


 * Ah Xiam