Hala Ali, MEd.

Artist Educator Researcher


Who am I?

I will be what I will become

I will be the messenger of the unknown

I will be the title and the tenor

I will inform

the oppressor and the oppressed

the murderer and the murdered

the ruler and the ruled

I will be a free gazelle with passion wings

I will jump away from the border and

cross all the oceans

Until there are no more boundaries

To discover who am I...


H Ali, 2018
Hala Ali
She opened her eyes in a house full of colors, grew up with a paintbrush in her hand. Thankful for Sulaiman Ali, the father who taught her how to tell stories through colors and lines. She started her practice with realism, then developed it into abstract and expressionism.

In 2015, she obtained her interior design degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus university. She knew that visual art has more power than just creating art. In 2017, she was delighted to do her master's degree in Art-Education. This unique study program IMAE gave her the opportunity to become an agent of change and an artist-educator who can transfer the use of art to others. During her master's, she discovered that visual art has a transformative impact on survivors that are traumatized from war or conflicts.

She continues her professional journey as a researcher. Her research and projects focus on the principles of art education, Trauma prevention, community healing, enabling social inclusion, unlocking suppressed voices, and critical pedagogy.


Artistic Research & topics of interest
Art is the way to understand the world. With critical and creative thinking, research has no boundaries.
Creative Interventions
"Coloring the pain" Preventing trauma through art-making
Social Change
The key to explore change
Projects
Paper Land magazine

2018, AZC Burgum
The space-in-between
2018, Minerva Art Academy, Groningen
One line-story

March 2018, The Playhouse, Derry/London Derry, UK (north Ireland)

Topical Discourse
16 April 2018, Minerva Art Academy, Groningen
Liberal Arts Event
30 October 2018, Windesheim University, Zwolle
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Art is the story of the mind
Behind his Smile
Art-making as a healing process.

This series of paintings tell a story of searching for answers to the question “what is hidden behind a killer’s smile?”
2016- Hengelo
Where is home?
These paintings were made based on artistic research of my identity and how I belong to different countries and carry the weight of history on my shoulder.
2017- IMAE-ArtEZ, Arnhem
Grasping the light
Paintings represent the struggles that people face, such as poverty, survival, and many others...
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One-line story


History is a line of our experiences.
Our stories will make the line endless. It is up to us,
how we continue drowning the
future.

Exhibitions
1
Graduation exhibition
Jul 2018
IMAE, ArtEZ, Arnhem, Netherlands
2
Group exhibition

Mar 2018

Playhouse, Derry/Londonderry, UK

(North Ireland)

3
Group exhibition

May 2016

Koetshuis, Borne, Netherlands

4
Noaberhood in the Kulturhus

Jan 2016

Kulturhus De Bijenkorf, Borne, Netherlands

5
Graduation exhibition

Feb 2015

Fine Arts University, Damascus, Syria

6
Group exhibition

Jun 2014

Fine Arts University, Damascus, Syria

Contact me
Feel free to write me.