Artists Statement

On the cultural night of ISEA2014, in the garden of Zayed University, Dubai, there were demonstrations of traditional arabic food making, calligraphy, music and dancing. The students of the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises (Zayed University) prepared a special performance for the occasion, with umbrellas and lights.

In the UAE, music is typically performed by men, and visual arts are women’s trade. So, all students of the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises are female.

• Zayed University is a UAE university established in 1998. It is one of three government-sponsored higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates. Achieving accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in the USA, it became the first federal university in the UAE to be internationally accredited. [source: Wikipedia]