Visual Arts Forum Ramallah, Palestine

Visual Arts Forum, Al Masyaef, 3933 Ramallah, State of Palestine info@vaf.ps | www.vaf.ps

Established in 2002, the Visual Arts Forum (VAF) is a leading Palestinian non-profit arts and culture institution. It aims towards a Palestinian society that is aware of its culture and identity, and believes that art and creativity are essential tools for expression, development, and free thought. VAF works with children, youths and adults, through five core programmes: The Visual Arts School, psychosocial support, community awareness, youth empowerment, and advocacy and lobbying.

The Visual Arts School explores and enhances talents in visual arts based on comprehensive curriculums for different ages from 5 to 70 years. VAF uses unconventional and contemporary methods of teaching for art to become a way of life. Students learn techniques, concepts, visit art galleries, attend artists’ talks and show at VAF’s Al-Muntada Gallery.

Sama Musaffar, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 80 cm Teacher and students at the Visual Arts Forum studios and gallery space Visual Arts Forum students and teachers, community work in a public space – at the Ottoman Court for Women’s Right for Child Custody A student at one of the academic classes at the studios of the Visual Arts Forum