Hangama Amiri is an Afghan-Canadian artist who works mostly in textiles that are combined with painted and printed designs. Her work addresses issues such as gender roles, social norms, cross-cultural communication, and geopolitical conflict in Central Asia, and how these affect the daily lives of women in both Afghanistan and the migrant Afghan communities in the West. She presents stories that are based on her memories of childhood in Afghanistan, and of migrant experiences.
Art teachers encourage students to tell stories through their art. Young students listen to a read-aloud and create clay creatures inspired by the book, elementary students illustrate influential figures in art history, middle-school students juxtapose natural and human-made elements through narrative compositions, high-school students manipulate images to create imagined landscapes, and more.
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