Visual Poetry

This session approaches the page as a spatial site for poetry, considering how typography, fragmentation, erasure, and arrangement can shape meaning. Participants will experiment with the visual possibilities of language and experiment with poetry that converses with embodiment, emotion, and artistic intuition. 

Workshop Session II (Thursday, November 26)

Open to ages 18+ 

No prior experience required

Language: English and Arabic

About the Instructor

Sarah Afaneh is a Palestinian artist (b. 2001) with an interdisciplinary practice that encompasses writing, photography, printmaking, and textiles. She is currently developing a series of work that embodies, archives, and translates grief through language, image, and textile—acts that become liberative gestures of mourning.

Sarah is a recipient of the Teaching Artists Fellowship at Manarat Al Saadiyat (2025/26) and the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (2024/25). Her work has been featured in Bayt AlMamzar, Satellite (Dubai), and The Cube at NYU Abu Dhabi, and published in Dukkan Collective, Sumou Mag, Global Art Daily, The National, and Fiker Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature & Creative Writing, and Social Research & Public Policy, with a minor in Political Science, from NYU Abu Dhabi (2022)