Corrections and clarifications: The Myth of Universalism: A Conversation with Artist Rajaa Gharbi

Corrections and clarifications.

Below are some corrections and clarifications to the March issue about Rajaa Gharbi.  

Revision #1

Original:  By the time she was in her second year of high school she was working at the OTEMA where she would spend seven years participating in local and national shows before moving to Morocco in 1977 and eventually getting married and moving to Seattle in the 1980s.

Revised:  By the time she was in her second year of high school she was working at OTEMA almost daily, and would spend seven years participating in local and national shows before moving to Morocco and getting married in the 70's. She would eventually move to Seattle in the 1980s. 

Revision #2

Original: She offered an example of how the letter ‘A’ in the English alphabet may actually have its origins in Tifinagh.

Revised: She offered an example of how the letter ‘A’ in the English alphabet may actually have its origins in Tifinagh, and looks like a ram's head in the Nabatean alphabet. 

Revision #3

Original: Today, Rajaa Gharbi has forged deeper connections in the art community in Seattle and beyond. Her work has appeared in GHAYYA Gallery, Art and Soul Gallery, Antioch University, the African American Art Museum, the Montana Historical Society, and more. Gharbi is the first North African English language poet in the United States to be published and awarded public funding for literary work (1986-2006) and she is currently exhibiting her artwork and sharing her poetry locally and internationally, including a recent reading tour in Chile. But Gharbi did note when she first moved U.S. with her husband at the time, certain cultural norms were a shock to her.

Revised: Today, Rajaa Gharbi has forged deeper connections in the art community in Seattle and beyond. Her work has appeared in GHAYYA Gallery, Art and Soul Gallery, Antioch University, the African American Art Museum, the Montana Historical Society, Center On Contemporary Art (COCA), Bellevue Art Museum, and more. Gharbi is the first North African English language poet in the United States to be published and awarded public funding for literary work (1986-2006) and she is currently exhibiting her artwork and sharing her poetry locally and internationally, including a recent reading tour in Chile. But Gharbi did note when she first moved to the U.S. with her husband at the time, certain cultural norms were a shock to her.