Jocelyn Ajami (born 1950) is an American artist and filmmaker of the
20th and 21st centuries.Jocelyn Ajami was born and raised in Caracas,
Venezuela to a Lebanese Greek Orthodox family. She emigrated to the
United States as a child in 1961. She was graduated from
Manhattanville College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and later
earned master's degrees in painting and art history from the arm of
Rosary College located at Villa Schifanoia in Italy, near
Florence.Ajami began her career as a fine artist. Her abstract
geometric paintings and drawings, which included large works such as
the 10 feet (3.0 m) by 6 feet (1.8 m) "Eros-Thantos", has been
exhibited at Studio 36 (a studio gallery in Boston she founded), as
well as Chapel Gallery, Clark Gallery, Mercury Gallery, the Brockton
and Fitchburg art museums, and at solo exhibitions in Boston, New York
City, and Florence, Italy.Ajami turned to producing and writing
documentary films and experimental videos in 1991. Her first video,
the experimental "The Tiger and the Cube", was exhibited at Boston's
Institute of Contemporary Art. After the Gulf War, Ajami made "Jihad",
a short video on the meaning of the term "jihad", which Ajami contends
refers to the internal struggle to become a good person, not a warlike
struggle against other people. This film won an honorable mention at
the 1992 American Film and Video Festival. Her documentary "Oasis of
Peace", about an Israeli village where Jews and Palestinians live
together in harmony, was premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City in 1995 and won the Merit Finalist Award from the Houston
International Film Festival.
20th and 21st centuries.Jocelyn Ajami was born and raised in Caracas,
Venezuela to a Lebanese Greek Orthodox family. She emigrated to the
United States as a child in 1961. She was graduated from
Manhattanville College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and later
earned master's degrees in painting and art history from the arm of
Rosary College located at Villa Schifanoia in Italy, near
Florence.Ajami began her career as a fine artist. Her abstract
geometric paintings and drawings, which included large works such as
the 10 feet (3.0 m) by 6 feet (1.8 m) "Eros-Thantos", has been
exhibited at Studio 36 (a studio gallery in Boston she founded), as
well as Chapel Gallery, Clark Gallery, Mercury Gallery, the Brockton
and Fitchburg art museums, and at solo exhibitions in Boston, New York
City, and Florence, Italy.Ajami turned to producing and writing
documentary films and experimental videos in 1991. Her first video,
the experimental "The Tiger and the Cube", was exhibited at Boston's
Institute of Contemporary Art. After the Gulf War, Ajami made "Jihad",
a short video on the meaning of the term "jihad", which Ajami contends
refers to the internal struggle to become a good person, not a warlike
struggle against other people. This film won an honorable mention at
the 1992 American Film and Video Festival. Her documentary "Oasis of
Peace", about an Israeli village where Jews and Palestinians live
together in harmony, was premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City in 1995 and won the Merit Finalist Award from the Houston
International Film Festival.
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