Black & White - Todays featured Artist is Pi Uzma Mirza: Artist statement: My art is a solidifying melody glorifying my Architect, G_d-an ‘Ode’ of an Islamic calligraphy, like a lyrical recital symphony score of a heart becoming a soul content (Mutamaina) for its journey home.” Essentially, my art is like an ‘Ode’ to G_d through the understanding and recitational melody of the Qur’an and practice of all the prophets with the scholarship of interpretation in a contemporary context of today within the natural world environment. My art places the heart and G_d as the pivotal tool to realize that all the bounties of the universe are for all people not for a few to hoard nor those who position their self as experts exploiting their self. My art has a greater purpose, which is to function as a tool of vicegerency and stewardship serving society and the environment as a helping hand building a sustainable and green world with the recital of the Artisan G_d, or as I call, ‘my architect’; as a vital tool to realize our hearts, our creative strengths, our unified diversity and our humanity in our journeys, with barak’ah (blessing) and compassion, where, as a tool, a percentage or all of proceeds of my art is donated to The Pen and Inkpot Foundation or other charitys to help build charitable scholarships, buildings and send relief within the core values of the founder. The influences of my Islamic art has been many, both western and eastern, alongside a scholarly study of the Qur’an through contemporary accepted interpretations within the entire body of Islamic spirituality (inner) and outward practice: the Ehsan, Iman and Islam, where the inner and outer are both vital ingredients to balance, as related in Quran and the Hadith Qudsi, with most importantly, my direct relation to G_d teaching me through my hand and life within the context of our contemporary world of today. Also being a professional Architect, I view my art complementing my architecture and vice versa, aloof from the crime of ornament, by realizing the importance of giving to the weak, the poor, the sick, the orphan and women in society which are all the building of sadaq’ah jarias as stewards of G_d, in order to help build a more equitable world and self. Bio: Uzma Mirza grew up in Canada in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and Ottawa Ontario. She is an NCARB registered and licensed Architect in the United States & Canada, certified with the US Green Building Council, and a member of the American Institute of Architects and other professional affiliations. A graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, with a professional degree in Architecture with High Distinction, with focus in Sacred Architecture and sustainability, specifically Islamic architecture which had formed a core of her final Thesis in university; and a recipient of the Ontario Association of Architects Medal. She is a published Islamic artist; an owner of an architecture consultancy called, AYN Architect Studio advancing sustainability and green building; she has been adjunct faculty in the area of green building; an author of the book, Ode to my Architect G_d: verse and sound of an Islamic art; and a founder of a non-profit organization, The Pen and Inkpot Foundation. She has worked on various sustainable design projects as a library for the Lost Boys of Sudan and various visions for sustainable design locally and internationally and presently, the architect for the Wayne State University Cass Ave Mosque and Islamic Center Renovation in Detroit, Michigan and the future architect for the Islamic School and Center in Plainfield, Indiana. One of her works is featured on the online Art exhibit of IMOW of International Art and voices of Muslim Women for the International Museum of Women. Last year she completed a solo Islamic Art Exhibit at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, recently the Canton Museum of Art in Ohio and has an upcoming exhibit at Art Link Auer Center Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was recently nominated for the 2013 Artie Award, in the category, Outstanding artist of the year, by Arts United of Northeastern Indiana. She resides with family between Indiana and California. About Foundation (501c3): The Pen and Inkpot Foundation or Pi Foundation: Mission--SEAK The Pen and Inkpot Foundation is a 501c3, non-profit charity in the USA, for our nature, society and sustainable environment, promoting green architecture for living, scholarships for education, the arts for healing, and the pen for knowledge. It is called SEAK. Let us reconnect the heart and self through helping, by giving, reusing, and replacing, growing and green building with the environment in mind! A percentage, and/or all funds from the art of pen and inkpot is donated to the Foundation. A general donation from you would be used in allocating funds for its Sustainable building projects, Educational Pi scholarship given to a student pursuing higher education emerging from an under privileged family, the International Travel Scholarship established with IUPUI School of Education and other projects as food drives, feeding the homeless, green and sustainable building, non profit (501c3) partnerships in work as building wells to provide water for those underprivileged, forums as the Taste of Ramadan, and projects that promote diversity, education, interfaith and healing in America: pifdn.org Discover more at: Art: penandinkpot.org; facebook/penandinkpot Architecture: aynarchitect; facebook/AYNArchitect Charity: pifdn.org; facebook/pifdn
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:51:17 +0000
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