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A real conversation with a lot of perspective. Za A real conversation with a lot of perspective.

Zahra Almajidi in conversation with friend, fellow Cranbrook grad + artist, Yasmeen Nematt Alla, talking about her process, friendship, making, and the ideas behind casting the net.

Thank you to everyone who came through, pulled up a chair, asked a question, and stayed awhile. 

This week is your last chance to see her exhibition in person. 

CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 3
12–5 PM

#PLAYGROUNDDETROIT #CastingTheNet #DetroitArt #DetroitArtists #cranbrookalumni
ARTIST TALK: This Saturday! Join Zahra Almajidi fo ARTIST TALK: This Saturday! Join Zahra Almajidi for an intimate conversation about her exhibition on view, “Casting the Net” at 2PM. 

As a visual artist raised and based in Detroit, her work explores the ways in which objects and adornment allow displaced people to continue to uphold and practice their craft traditions while living in the diaspora. She is a 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient, powered by Gilbert Family Foundation.

At its core, Almajidi’s body of work investigates the following: How do we build upon the craft traditions of our ancestors? How do we in the diaspora effectively look towards a future, while still holding space for a culture that has been prevented from organically moving into the 21st century?

How do one reckon with the imposed destruction of the ecosystem and material conditions of a culture that has existed for 5000 years? How do we immortalize our existences through objects whose origins we can only sense, whose histories are fragmented yet persist in collective memory?

Above all- how does one’s crafted objects challenge the conditions of loss to reassert presence through material and form?

“Casting the Net” is on view through October 3.

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Thursday- Saturday, 12-5PM

RSVP not required.

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Artist Workshop: Charm-making with Zahra 😍 Parti Artist Workshop: Charm-making with Zahra 

😍 Participants had fun learning techniques for embossing, forming, and drawing to create their own charms and decorative ornaments.

Designed for beginners and experienced makers alike, the workshop was a simple way to create decorative objects out of metal foil.  We loved everyone’s finished pieces! 

Powered by Gilbert Family Foundation @gilbertfamilyfoundation during #DetroitMonthofDesign.

Save the date! Don’t miss her Artist talk on Saturday, September 26 at 2PM.

Her solo exhibition, “Casting the Net, “is on view through October 3.
Casting the Net: Zahra Almajidi Almajidi’s solo Casting the Net: Zahra Almajidi
 
Almajidi’s solo exhibition flows between the spaces of constructed memory and contradictory materiality asking, “How does one build upon the craft and design traditions of their ancestors to forge a connection to their displaced culture?”

This question manifests into a colorful, figurative and ornamental visual language that transforms space into a site of confrontation. 

Adorned with design objects inspired by the imagery in the Marsh Arab rugs and other cultural objects, the exhibition functions as a speculative act of world-building instead of focusing on a past systematically erased. Instead, “Casting The Net” insists on projecting a future that both references and expands upon a dying craft and material culture. 

Zahra Almajidi is a visual artist raised and based in Detroit, Michigan and alum of Cranbrook Art Academy (@cranbrook_art) She is a 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient, powered by Gilbert Family Foundation (@gilbertfamilyfoundation). 
 
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