Begin forwarded message: From: Suleiman Mansour Date: December 16, 2010 12:22:05 AM EST To: Dan Walsh Subject: Re: UPWA ... ??? union of Palestinian women associations ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Walsh Date: Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:08 AM Subject: Fwd: UPWA ... ??? To: amer shomali min fudlik, what is the correct name of this union? dan Begin forwarded message: From: muralanda@aol.com Date: December 15, 2010 7:05:17 PM EST To: liberation@igc.org Subject: Re: UPWA ... ??? Union of Palestinian Womens' Association, or close to that. I'm almost positive. Will look into as well as other things as soon as a bit of open air appears. Would be cool if was artists, but its not. Take care, Miranda -----Original Message----- From: Dan Walsh To: muralanda@aol.com Sent: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 11:09 am Subject: UPWA ... ??? Union of Palestinian Women Union of Palestinian Woman Artists??? ??? Please advise Dan -- Best Regards Suleiman Mansour 00972 545585428 00972 597509957
Begin forwarded message: From: muralanda@aol.com Date: December 15, 2010 12:11:44 AM EST To: liberation@igc.org Subject: Re: Thanks for the love and.... -----Original Message----- From: Dan Walsh To: muralanda@aol.com Sent: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 6:23 pm Subject: I love you Miranda... Hi Dan, I have gotten swamped since our last email exchange. I will have to answer some of your questions in a day or two. I am attaching a copy of the logo. I only have one poster, but have the word out to the others, and am waiting for responses. UPWA probably has copies left, perhaps. Yes, I am the artist of all of the images on the poster. They are a section of a mural cover the first floor, stairwell, and part of second floor of the Center for Popular Arts in El Bireh, painted in 1989. It is correct to credit me for the poster art, all 4 of us for the mural (which we also painted with Palestinians from the Center, mostly dancers from Af Fanoun Dance Troupe who was housed at that time in the building. Their names are also on the mural. The 4 of us designed and directed it. Not sure when poster was printed, but will try to find out. I'm embarressed that I can't remember the woman's name in the poster, maybe the others will. Thank you for your enthusiasm and care, and the work that you do. Peace, Miranda There are some links I will send you, etc. ..what a great poster...what a great mural! Thank you so much. You can be sure I will add it to the PPPA. I am at 4,000 posters now and taking a few weeks to work on the site's internal functions/architecture—oil change, grease job, charging batteries, etc.— so I am not uploading just now but once the new updated software is installed, hopefully within two weeks, I will be back in strength. I'll send you an email once it is up. This project was never suppose to get this big or complicated ... or popular. It was just a part of my graduate thesis at Georgetown and I only put it online to facilitate review by by thesis panel/readers and as it grew, well, it grew and grew. There are still another 2,000 posters on hand here to be added and about 40 new posters arriving each week! Can you believe it? Me neither. Some q's: What year was this poster published? Do you have any extra copies of the poster? If so, we would love to have them for the PPPA/Georgetown University and Columbia University and the Library of Congress. It is a central objective of the PPPA to get Palestine posters into these major archives/libraries/university collections. Who was the publisher? (Can you shoot a macro/digital shot of the logo for me?) You are the artist of the poster, right? (I ask because my colleagues in Ramallah are already looking for this mural-yes, we are that fast!) and once they find it they will shoot jpegs and I will add/link both the poster and the mural at the PPPA site and I want to credit all the artists...you for the poster...Dina, Susan, you and Marlene for the mural? Is that correct? Do you have any jpegs of the mural itself? Do you know the name of the woman in the poster? If you want to, you and/or the other artists can write an "Artists' Statement" about the mural, the process, the people...anything you want to say about the work and I will include it at the poster's page in the PPPA If you, Dina, Susan or Marlene have web sites you'd like to have linked...just send them along and consider them linked. Finally, may I consult you as to the artists/art that was produced for the La Pena show back in 1989? Susan and Doug are helping and I plan to work a bit on that next week. My main challenge is matching up the art with the correct artist. Can you help? in solidarity, Dan On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:57 PM, muralanda@aol.com wrote: Hi Dan, It's Miranda Bergman. I'm attaching a jpeg of another Palestine poster that you dont have on the Palestine poster Project that I saw. It was printed by the Union of Palestinian Women. The image was painted by me. The person planting the new hope for Palestine was the custodian at The Center for Popular Arts, where the mural was painted. I always like to honor the invisible low rung workers anywhere. And there she is, shadowed by the huge sunflower in which each petal is the shape of original Palestine. She was so proud, she brought her entire extended family to it, took pictures, etc. It was part of a mural that the original Break The Silence Mural Project painted in El Bireh Palestine. (the original group was myself Miranda Bergman, Susan Greene, Dina Redman, and Marlene Tobias). If you don't have it, I would love for you to add it to your collection. A better photograph could be taken if this one isn't good enough. Hope that you are well. Take care. Peace, Miranda =