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The Musawah Artists Collective (MAC) is a four-month, non-residential, online programme designed for artists, to create new spaces and re-imagine how we get to a world where justice for Muslim women starts with equality in the family. The Programme will run from March – June 2024.
The MAC will refer to Musawah’s Framework for Action and the 12 Principal Areas of Concern as guiding principles of the movement’s work, and implement it to strengthen the impact, reach, and social responsibility through combining art with activism.
The Artists will have the opportunity to create multi-layered advocacy work to reach the general public in easy, uncomplicated, and focused terms. There will be three streams, namely Documentary Film, Visual Art, and Creative Nonfiction. Each stream will consist of its own Faculty Leadership; a Mentor and a Facilitator, and three Artists.
At the end of this programme, each Artist is required to produce one project in their respective art disciplines.
Insia Dariwala | Documentary Filmmaking | An award-winning international filmmaker based in India, she effectively uses her expertise as a writer / director to highlight social evils such as Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the medium of visual arts and cinema.
Aisha Hussain | Visual Arts | A world-renowned artist based in Lahore, Pakistan. Holding a diverse practice, working with a variety of mediums from Miniature Painting to Photography and Film, she has exhibited widely in Solo and Group shows in Galleries and Museums in USA, England, France, Italy, Austria, India and Pakistan.
Dina Zaman | Creative Nonfiction | A writer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has published three books, of which two, ‘I Am Muslim’ and ‘Holy Men, Holy Women’, are based on her columns on religions and faith in Malaysia.
Nadiah Hamzah | Documentary Filmmaking | A film director and producer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With her debut film Motif, Nadiah Hamzah has been hailed as “the one to watch” by The Hollywood Reporter.
Yante Ismail | Visual Arts | A feminist artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, her art focuses on women’s rights and empowerment. She challenges the patriarchy, and the damaging social and religious norms that dictate how women exist in society.
Zehra Shah | Creative Nonfiction | A poet, writer and independent art and culture journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is currently working on a poetry collection on rape culture and gender violence in Pakistan, and investigating the role of women in folk songs and ancient mythology found in heritage sites and tomb paintings in Sindh.
