‘Road to Makkah’ feature works by VCUarts Qatar alumni

‘Road to Makkah’ feature works by VCUarts Qatar alumni

Artworks by three alumni from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, are part of the exhibition titled 'Road to Makkah', at Eiwan Al Gassar Gallery St Regis.

The exhibition runs until September 10. Thirty artists from 12 countries - Qatar, Saudi, Bahrain, Oman, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Sudan, Tunisia and the UK - are participating in the exhibition.

The exhibition is curated by Bachir Mohamed.

Faheem Khan, BFA, graphic design, Class of 2019, MFA in design, Class of 2022; Othman M Khunji, MFA in design, Class of 2015; and Noof al-Naama, BFA, interior design, Class of 2022, are the three alumni participating in the presentation.

<< Noof al-Naama

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Khan's art installation is titled 'Less Water, More Holy: Tools for Sustainable Ablution'. The artworks are part of Khan's MFA in design thesis.

Khan says he feels "a moral obligation to use his gifts and talent as a designer to help Muslims follow our Prophet's (peace be upon him) Sunnah, after all as believers of Islam, that is our goal".

He explains further, "Muslims pray five times a day, and before each prayer, they first clean themselves by performing ritual ablution (wudu). To visualise and better understand