Art Jameel’s Collection Care Fellowship addresses the particular challenges and opportunities associated with managing, conserving and caring for institutional art collections situated in West Asia and associated climates and situations across South Asia, Africa and/or relevant countries.
As part of her Collection Care Fellowship with Art Jameel, Rachelle Tabet (Deputy Director of Collections, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar) is conducting a survey aimed at gathering data on how institutions in the Global South source, select, and evaluate materials used for housing and storing heritage collections.
The goal is to better understand the challenges and lived realities of institutions where access to conservation-grade materials is limited, and the solutions they’ve developed to address these gaps, particularly in the SWANA/MENASA region.
If you work with art, heritage or archival collections in the Global South, we invite you to participate in this survey, which will offer insights into the conservation world beyond the Global North.
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Art Jameel supports artists and creative communities. Founded and supported by the Jameel family philanthropies, the independent organisation is headquartered in Saudi Arabia and the UAE and works globally. Art Jameel’s programmes – across exhibitions, commissions, research, learning and community-building – are grounded in a dynamic understanding of the arts as fundamental to life and accessible to all.
Art Jameel’s two institutions – Hayy Jameel, a dedicated complex for the arts and creativity in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Jameel Arts Centre, an innovative contemporary institution in Dubai, UAE – are complemented by digital initiatives plus collaborations with major institutional partners and a network of practitioners across the world.
The organisation’s collaborative model includes working with a network of institutions across the world, plus long-term strategic and programmatic partnerships with the V&A, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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