Studio Sessions

Want to explore how movement, place, and the spaces in between can be translated into visual form? 

Join us for an intimate gathering that begins with a presentation and conversation led by multidisciplinary artist and designer Dina Nazmi Khorchid, where she will share her artistic practice, material samples, and research. 

Drawing from her work with weaving, landscape, and abstraction, Dina will speak about transience, migration, and the tension of existing in-between geographies, and how these ideas materialize through form, repetition, and surface in her visual language.

Following the discussion, participants will move into a guided, hands-on studio exercise. Working from a curated “image buffet,” we will experiment with abstraction through cutting, layering, and repeating silhouettes. Dina will guide us through translating images into abstract compositions, encouraging us to let go of the literal and explore rhythm, texture, and form as a way of thinking, and seeing, visually.

This session is designed to feel reflective, tactile, and exploratory, balancing conversation with making, and observation with experimentation.

Accessibility & Participation

Lunch will be provided.

No prior experience required.

Language: English

About the Artist

Dina Nazmi Khorchid (b. 1987, Kuwait) is a visual artist who works primarily with printed and woven textiles. Her work constructs narratives of place and connections to lost bodies, through mark-making, photography and material studies, that manifest as textiles and works on paper. She explores themes of identity and geo-politics, grief, land and memory access; in relation to being a third-generation Palestinian refugee, an artist and daughter of a disappeared casualty of the Gulf War.

Dina’s work is in private collections and was featured in group shows in the UAE, USA, Lebanon and Tunisia, including exhibitions at Abu Dhabi Art, Art Dubai, B7L9 Art Centre, Institute for Palestine Studies, Field Projects, Tashkeel and 421. She completed a Master of Fine Arts in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design (2023), where she was a recipient of the Society of Presidential Fellows Award and a Bachelors in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah (2009). Dina was awarded Artist-in-Residence at Texere (Mexico, Feb 2024), Vermont Studio Center (USA, Sept 2023), Fellow at Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program (Lebanon, 2018-2019) and is an alumnus of the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Emerging Artists Fellowship (UAE, 2016-2017).