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Mohamed Abla, an Egyptian artist, founded Fayoum Art Center in 2006. It is a non-profit organization which was inspired by the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. The Center is dedicated to all the artists around the world. It helps artists by giving them studio spaces they need, besides providing them with art libraries and living areas.
In 2007, Abla founded The Fayoum Art Center, a space for artists to meet, work and collaborate. [3] The center is inspired by the International Summer Academy in Salzburg where Alba teaches. [4] It is located by Lake Qarun in Fayoum, and is surrounded by mountains, sand dunes and palm trees. [4]
Archaeological evidence has found occupations around the Faiyum dating back to at least the Epipalaeolithic.Middle Holocene occupations of the area are most widely studied on the north shore of Lake Moeris, where Gertrude Caton Thompson and Elinor Wight Gardner did a number of excavations of Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites, as well as a general survey of the area. [6]
Two major parts of this papyrus are in American museum collections – the Morgan Library & Museum and the Walters Art Museum – and were reunited in a traveling exhibition that opened at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore on October 6, 2013. The exhibition was entitled Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum. [8]
Evelyne Porret (1939 – June 1, 2021) [1] was a Swiss potter. Originally from Switzerland, she moved to the village of Tunis, in the oasis of Fayoum with partner Michel Pastore, and established a pottery school in the village in the 1980s which played a large role in creating the village's pottery culture. [2]
Map sheet showing Faiyum Oasis site A scenic view of Faiyum Oasis archaeology region. Karanis Site Museum, also known as Kom Aushim Museum, (Arabic: متحف كوم أوشيم) is an archaeological museum located in Tamiya, Faiyum Governorate, Lower Egypt.
The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits . Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin , particularly from Hawara and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis .
Site of Faiyum Oasis (directly southwest of Cairo, listed as Al-Fayyum) on a map of Egypt Map showing Faiyum Oasis. The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Wāḥat al-Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt.