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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 gallery 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.

Also at Za'atari, a group of Syrian artists and educators has created a series of models of famed Syrian monuments and sites. The models have been made with locally available supplies, including hundreds of wooden kebab skewers. Some of these sites are threatened, many have already been destroyed. The project has helped to reconnect refugees with their own cultural heritage. And for many children in the camp, this might be their only opportunity to see these once famous sites.

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Castle Art Project
==== This project is at Akre camp in Iraq in what was once a  prison. It houses about 1500 Syrian refugees. The name comes from the meaning of the word Akre, which is castle. The art project involves young residents in painting the bleak walls of the camp, providing both some color to their lives and therapy for the mental wounds they have endured. ====

http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/iraq-s-castle-dreams-43189676
==== Start is an organization providing art programs for refugee, orphaned, and special needs children in the UAE, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and India. Volunteer artists work directly with the children. ====

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/

ASTEP(Artists Striving to End Poverty) is a New York based organization that works with children affected by poverty through the arts. Working with volunteer performing and visual artists, they sponsor programs in The U.S., the Dominican Republic, India, and South Africa. In New York City they run the creative arts component of the Refugee Youth Summer Academy (RYSA) in partnership with the IRC’s Refugee Youth Program.

https://www.astep.org/astep-at-refugee-youth-summer-academy/ ees
==== Suitcase Stories is a program sponsored by the International Institute of New England to honor the stories of refugees through storytelling.It is both an online media campaignand a live performance series that travels parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Funds raised by ticket sales support the Institute's programming including refugee resettlement,  ESOL classes, and workforce training. ====

https://iine.org/suitcasestories
==== Dance for Peace is a crowd funder created byTed Brandsen, the artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet support Syrian refugee and ballet dancer Ahmad Joudeh and enable him to come to the Netherlands to study and dance. Brandsen discovered Joudeh's story through a documentary made by a Dutch journalist. J ====

Artists Who Were
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