Art Foundation

Simone Muscolino is a multidisciplinary designer and video-maker. He holds a Master in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, with a professional focus on interaction-design and time-based media. During the past 10 years he has curated the video production of several design and architecture firms. He has being active in various fields of video production,...

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Hadeer Omar (1988, Alexandria) is an Egyptian new media artist, designer, and educator. Omar holds an MFA in Design and BFA in Graphic Design from VCUarts Qatar. Her research explores cultural identity and memories, the self, and narratives artfully through immersive XR media and technologies, graphics, photography, VJ performance and video art installations.  ...

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Jesse Payne is an American artist currently working and teaching in Doha, Qatar. Payne’s work uses rigorous craft to amplify his creative interests: what does it mean to understand an artist’s gaze, and what does it do to a culture to censor it? His subjects – whether dimensioned iterations of Leonardo...

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Maysaa Almumin is an Architect and independent filmmaker. She graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She has extensive experience in architectural practice in both London and Kuwait, where she was a partner in Small Architecture Ltd, London; and the Director of THEM Designers in Kuwait. She is a member the...

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Nathan currently teaches Surface Research in the Art Foundation program at VCUQatar. After studying sculpture at Oregon State, Nathan earned an MFA in Design at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Nathan began teaching at Ohio University and then Montana State University before coming to VCUQatar. He taught undergraduate graphic design for 5...

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Ryan Browning is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. His paintings have a way of simplifying imagery to a cartoonish state without losing the specificity of the objects he is portraying. He draws inspiration from virtual and role playing game worlds, often portraying these imaginary spaces without the presence of figures, as if they had just...

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Drawing from Heritage

Twenty-five students from our Art Foundation program visited the Diwan Amiri Quarter in the Msheireb site in Doha, where they participated in the Msheireb Art & Architecture project called “Drawing from Heritage”. Students were asked to draw on-site capturing the on-going construction and existing heritage in a variety of mediums.

Live drawing at Al-Shaqab

In the spring semester 2012 the Foundation program established a connection with Al-Shaqab to engage students to draw the arabian horses and foals as an alternative to the traditional life drawings. All students of the drawing classes were engaged in a full-day drawing exercise at Al-Shaqab and captured the Arabian horses features and form through a variety of mediums. .

Intense Louise Bourgeois

In collaboration with the QMA gallery in Katara, the Art Foundation program setup a short and intensive workshop with the focus on Louise Bourgeois the renowned French-Amerian artist and sculputor. All freshmen were invited and encouraged to create artworks based around the work of Louise Bourgeois. The final artworks from the workshop were exhibited in June 2012 during an event at the QMA gallery

VCUQatar & VCURichmond Art Foundation Exchange

This exchange brought together the two campuses of Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and Richmond. The Art Foundation program from both campuses worked together in running an exchange inviting nine freshmen from Richmond to Doha in February 2012 to participate in an intensive collaborative workshop between the freshmen from each campus.

Doha Watches

London-based designer Crispin Jones who works at the intersection of Art and Design known broadly as Critical Design was invited to run a workshop for our Art Foundation program students. The one-day intensive workshop focused on developing collaborative clocks through video-making within the Time Studio.

Wreck this Journal

Art Foundation students took part in a short workshop based on the book called ‘Wreck this Journal’ by Keri Smith. Wreck this ournal is an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them). The students were asked to complete the book in a month. The artworks then became part of an internal Art Foundation exhibition at VCUQatar.

OrigaMe

Art Foundation program students developed several origami in various forms to be exhibited during the VCUQatar Open House event together with the view of the ‘Building Blocks of Freshmen’. Additionally students answered the question ‘Why do I want to become an artist or designer?.’ The answers were launched into the VCUQatar building in the form of origami airplanes to arrive as gadgets for any of the visitors to collect.

Building Blocks of Freshmen

All freshmen students attended an open-air workshop as players in a stop-motion movie created on the grounds of Education City. The emphasis was on understanding collaboration and team-spirit as well as coordination.

Auto-Graph

A number of freshmen participated in an intensive workshop run by John Andrews, a professor from AA in London. The workshop intended to expand on the basic principles of automatic drawing and how this form of drawing may influence the design of three-dimensional space. For two days the students experimented with calligraphic notation and its abstraction into built form.