Join Helen Zughaib, artist and author of 'Stories My Father Told Me', for a special workshop for children and their families!

In this workshop, based on Helen’s shoe project titled 'The Places They’ll Go,' participants will paint their own little shoes to take home.

This workshop is for children ages 7 and above; parents are welcome to join.

Note: Please bring your own white shoes to paint on.

This event is facilitated by the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

About the instructor:

Helen currently lives and works in Washington, DC, as an artist. She paints primarily in gouache and ink on board and canvas. More recently, she has worked with wood, shoes, and cloth in mixed media installations.

Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Lebanon. Her paintings are included in many private and public collections, including the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, US Consulate General, Vancouver, American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, the Barjeel Collection in Sharjah, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the DC Art Bank Collection.  Her work has been included in Art in Embassy State Department exhibitions abroad, including Brunei, Nicaragua, Mauritius, Iraq, Belgium, Lebanon, Sweden, Abu Dhabi, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Helen has served as Cultural Envoy to Palestine, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia. The John F. Kennedy Center/REACH has selected Helen as a member of the 2021/24 Inaugural Social Practice Residency. Her paintings have been gifted to heads of state by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She is the recipient of the Senior Fellowship at Abraham Path Initiative, 2024.