The second post in my two-part series as a guest blogger for Metromode was published this morning. The article is titled Striving to be a National Institution. What does it mean to be a national museum? Whose stories do we reflect? What do we aspire to be? These are all common questions that I receive [...]
I was recently asked to be a guest blogger on Metromode.com, a Website that “posts daily reports on job growth and development in Southeast Michigan.” I’m a fan of both Metromode and its sister publication, Model D, so agreeing to write a few short articles on the Arab American National Museum was a no-brainer. In [...]
The past few days have been incredibly hectic. I returned early this morning from three days of work in Washington, D.C. A colleague and I met with museums, government agencies, and members from the Arab American community to discuss new educational opportunities and a forthcoming exhibit we are developing. I departed Washington, D.C. at 3:30 [...]
It appears there are more and more exhibits and competitions for mobile phone photography. I’m glad to see the medium grow. Recently, I submitted five images to the EYE’EM Award, “an international competition dedicated to the rise of mobile photography as a new artform.” Here are the four most important rules for the competition (see [...]
These past few weeks have been an incredibly busy time for me. In short, this has caused my daily iPhone photography project to suffer. Of the thirty-one days in March, I was only able to shoot a daily image fifteen times. When I began this project I was hoping for roughly a ninety percent success [...]