Tasmeem Doha 2019 runs March 13 to 15, and this time the biennial art and design conference will host a bevy of student-created workshops. The program known as Next Jeel—translated to Next “Generation” in Arabic—empowers students to take a lead role in education. There will be 10 three-hour workshops in total, with five conducted by VCUarts students traveling to Doha, Qatar, from Richmond.
Yixue (Ivy) Li, a graduate student in the Graphic Design Visual Communications program, will lead the sold-out workshop “In Darkness We See Languages.”
“In Darkness We See Languages” is a workshop that teaches light drawing and writing techniques, a means to create words and images with long exposure photography and other devices. The workshop also considers languages, translation and translators as storytellers. It encourages participants to use their bodies as tools to produce work that lives in and lights up darkness—a filter, Li says, that renders us all equal.
Learn more about Li’s work at her website.
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