Throughout this residency, using a selection of five traditional Palestinian headdresses in the Tatreez Institute Collection from Yaffa, Jerusalem, Gaza, Al Khalil, and Bir Saba from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wafa Ghnaim will create a digital map of the Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) designs and other material aspects that instruct future reconstruction and builds social, economic, and political historical contexts. This material analysis will be a culmination of work that began in 2023 during her fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wafa Ghnaim (she/her) is a Palestinian dress historian, researcher, writer, archivist, curator, educator, and embroideress.

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