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Art Club: The Ultimate Sketchbook

Using collected found material to appropriate, combine, manipulate and reuse.

CollaCurating: Sculptural Perspectives

CollaCurating is a project initiated by Areej Kaoud in which curating as an art practice is articulated via collaboration between artists. The first in the proposed series of collaborations or convers...

Art Club: Street Art

Basic bookbinding skills for artists and designers (Part 1)

This workshop will teach the basic principles of single/double/triple signature, Japanese, single sheet, and multiple signature bookbinding techniques to design professionals. Participants will be enc...

The Found Object

The Found Object workshop will start by discussing the found object in its most basic definition, examining the removal of everyday objects from their natural context and bringing them into a gallery ...

Systems for a Score

For their first exhibition in the region Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver construct a possible 'grammar of sound' from its own physical, occluded principles. Through the reiteration of sound across a ser...

Screenprinting 1

In this one-off session participants will get to understand the basic principles of screen-printing and experience the printing process through using stencil cut-outs, as well as through screen exposu...

Skateboarding Lessons

The Tashkeel Skate Program is back and ready to kick off an other season worth of lessons.

Declaration

Utilizing monumental surfaces as his canvas, eL Seed's work has been created and seen on numerous structures and building façades around the world, marking his bold and beautiful take on Arabic text a...

Khatt Foundation: Arabic Type Design

The programme for the third Khatt Foundation Type Design Workshop at Tashkeel will cover the complex process of Arabic typeface design – from the creative inception phase, to drawing the letterforms, ...

Jewellery Making from Wax

This workshop focuses on the skills required to design and produce a jewellery set drawing on the facilities of wax moulding in silver and gold, a method commonly used in the region for elaborate and ...

​Modular Arabic Typeface (Part 2)

In the second part of Modular Arabic Typeface, participants will build on the modular alphabet created in the first workshop and develop a full typeface with all the contextual variants of each letter...