Taimaa Salama

Taimaa Salama is an artist and arts educator whose relief paintings combine sculpture, photography, and Palestinian traditional craft in ways that allow children with visual needs to engage with art. Ms. Salama’s work has been profiled multiple times by Xinhua, Middle East Monitor, Global Times, APA, Amos Trust, Jinha, and elsewhere. Her pieces have been been awarded by the United Nations and exhibited by the National Association of Women Artists in partnership with UNESCO, Mediterranean Frequencies (Palestine & Italy), the Windows Contemporary Art Festival (Gaza City), the Butterfly Effect Festival (UK), the NUFF Film Festival (Norway), and elsewhere. She has presented at TEDx.

A member of The Gaza Atelier, Salama studied Arts Education at Al-Aqsa University.