Salma Arastu

Salma Arastu (born 1950, Ajmer, India) is an Indian artist, living in in North America.cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-608270,prtpage-1.cms|title= Indian art comes alive in the US |publisher=The Times of India|accessdate=2007-04-24] cite web|url=http://www.salmaarastu.com/about.htm|title=Bio: Salma Arastu|publisher=|accessdate=2007-04-23] cite web|url=http://www.iaac.us/art_exhibition/salma_arastu/bio.htm|title=Indo-American Art Council, Inc|publisher=Indo-American Art Council, Inc|accessdate=2007-04-23] cite web|url=http://www.sawcc.org/emergency_artists.html|title=SAWCC: Shaken and Stirred Visual Arts|publisher=SAWCC.org|accessdate=2007-04-23] cite web|url=http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/ah369/contemporarysite.htm|title=South Asian Women's Creative Collection|publisher=skidmore.edu|accessdate=2007-04-23] Arastu is a native of Rajasthan and had a masters in fine arts from MS University in Baroda. Arastu's main mediums include clay sculpture, paper mache, and print work. She has also worked extensively with calligraphy and produces greeting cards for the American Muslim community. [Moore, Haddad, Smith (2006) p. 139] Arastu has been exhibiting her paintings for over last thirty years in India, Iran, Kuwait, Germany and the United States, having more than thirty solo and group exhibitions. cite web|url=http://www.ncwca.org/newsletter.php|title=Women's Caucus for Art: Northern California Chapter|publisher=ncwca.org|accessdate=2007-04-23] . Furthermore, her work has been placed in many museums around world for example, "State Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA" and "Museum Of Modern Art, Hyderabad, India". cite web|url=http://www.mesart.com/biography.jsp.que.artist.eq.3256.shtml|title=Biography: Salma Arastu|publisher=mesart.com|accessdate=2007-04-23] Her exhibitions have been held in notable places e.g. "Stanford Art Spaces", Stanford University, "art Museum", Radford University, cite web|url=http://rumuseum.asp.radford.edu/past_years/04_05_season/04_05_season.htm|title=RU Museum Current Exhibitions|publisher=radford.edu|accessdate=2007-04-23 ] cite web|url=http://cis.stanford.edu/~marigros/show56.html|title=SAS Exhibition|publisher=stanford.edu|accessdate=2007-04-23 ] cite web|url=http://events.mercurynews.com/events/show/1117111-Illustrations-Paintings-|title=illustration & Paintings, Stanford Galleries, San Jose Mercury News|publisher=San Jose Mercury News|accessdate=2007-04-23 ] and she has earned several awards for her work.

Selected solo exhibition

Salma Arastu has had more than thirty solo exhibitions and even many more group exhibitionscite web|url=http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2004/12/13/University/Event.Showcases.Islam.Artists.Poets.Musicians-828394.shtml|title= Event showcases Islam artists, poets, musicians|publisher=daily Targum|accessdate=2007-04-24] . Some of her selected solo exhibitions are following.

* 2006 September: Artjaz Gallery in Philadelphia, PA cite web|url=http://www.artjaz.com/artists/arastu/index.html|title= Art Jaz Gallery - Salma Arastu |publisher=artjaz|accessdate=2007-04-24]
* 2005 September: The Hope Horn Gallery Scranton University, Scranton PAcite web|url=http://matrix.scranton.edu/Resources/re_art_gallery.shtml|title=The University of Scranton- The hope Horn Gallery|publisher=scranton.edu|accessdate=2007-04-24]
* 2005 April: Penn State University gallery at Berks campus Reading PA
* 2005 February: Radford University Art Museum, Radford University, Radford,VA
* 2004 May: The Art Alliance, Cornwell, Upstate New York
* 2004 April: Gelabert Studios Gallery, New York, NY
* 2003 April: Artjaz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
* 2003 April: Black Cultural Center, Lafayette College, and Easton, PA cite web|url=http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/5486/|title= Work by Five Women Artists on Display at Black Cultural center|publisher=lafayette.edu|accessdate=2007-04-24]
* 2002 May: Barns and Noble, Broadway, New York
* 2002 April: Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
* 2000 September: ArtJaz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
* 2000 June: Sweet cream cafe gallery, Strousburg, PA
* 2000 An Invitational exhibition of paintings and six-week residency program in Schwabisch Gmund, Germany. 15th March 2000 to the end of April 2000.
* 1999 Reading Art Museum. Reading, PA cite web|url=http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/exhibits/past/2001/070101_082601.html|title=Reading Public Museum: Discovery Through Art, Science and Civilization|publisher=Reading Public Museum|accessdate=2007-04-24]
* 1998 Art Gallery De Art Magic, Easton, PA
* 1998 Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
* 1998 A Gallery, New York, NY
* 1997 The Gallery at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
* 1997 Hub Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
* 1993 Design Accent, Allentown, PA.
* 1992 Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA.
* 1992 Powers Art Gallery, East Strousburg University, PA.
* 1991 Fine Arts Commission, Rotunda Gallery, Bethlehem, PA.
* 1989 Springer Gallery, Allentown, PA.
* 1989 DuBois Gallery & Display Cases Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University,
* 1989 John's United Church of Christ, Kutztown, PA. East Penn Emerging Art 1986 Boushari Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
* 1984 British Council Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
* 1981 Kala Bhavan Gallery, Hyderabad, India.
* 1979 Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India.
* 1978 Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
* 1977 Art Gallery, Hotel Intercontinental, Tehran, Iran.
* 1976 Kala Bhavan Gallery, Hyderabad, India.
* 1975 Kala Bhavan, Hyderabad, India.
* 1973 Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Calcutta, India.

Trivia

* She was born without fingers on her left hand.
* Writes small stories and poetry beside being a professional painter.
* She claims the aim of her art is bring diverse people to one God cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10012FFBC29A8244&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Art aiming to bring diverse people to one God|publisher=Philadelphia Inquirer|accessdate=2007-04-23]

Notes

References

*cite book | last=Moore | first=Kathleen M |coauthors=Haddad, Y; Smith, J | title=Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2006 | id=ISBN 0195177835
*cite book | last=O'Brien | first=Jodi A. | title=The Production Of Reality: the Production of (p 4/ed) Reality: Essays and Read-ings on Social Interaction | publisher=Pine Forge Press | year=2006 | id=ISBN 1412915198
*cite journal|author=Lee Klein|title=Art on the Eve of Destruction| url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/152028103322491656?cookieSet=1&journalCode=pajj|journal= PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, MIT Press|issn= 1520-281X|accessdate=2007-04-24|doi=10.1162/152028103322491656|year=2003|volume=25|pages=20

External links

* [http://www.salmaarastu.com/ Salma Arastu's Art Collection] (official website).
* Salma Arastu's Official [http://www.yourtruegreettings.com Islamic Greeting Cards and Arabic Calligraphy] collection.

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