March 11, 2009 “Quartet of Voices” Fugues by Frank Rothkamm Center for Book Arts 28 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 212-481-0295 Voices: Ernest Hood Rika Lesser David McCorkle Zahra Partovi In conjunction with “A Poet Speaks” Installation by Zahra Partovi Poetry of J.M. Rumi, in translation by Zahra Partovi It is said that the poetry of Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi is the closest a language can get to music. The “Quartet of Voices” performing on March 11th at the Center for Book Arts proves this point by a multi-layered bilingual recitation of this poetry in form of a musical quartet. Without sacrificing profound meaning of his timeless poetry, the quartet attempts to manifest the strong musicality of Rumi’s poetry. The text is treated as a musical score with added dynamics and expression marks, and just like 4 musical lines played by 4 instruments, various poems are woven together to create cohesive statement. http://rothkamm.com/http://www.centerforbookarts.orgshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
June 5, 2009 - September 6, 2009 Brooklyn Museum of Art “The Light of the Sufis” Included in the exhibit : “Fragments of Light II” Translation Zahra Partovi Artist Kelly Driscoll New York Times Reviewhttp://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/light_of_the_sufis/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/arts/design/12sufi.html?scp=1&sq=The%20Many%20Voices%20of%20Enlightenment&st=cseshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1
Saturday, June 13, 2009 Brooklyn Museum of Art 2 PM - 4 PM “Ruminations with Zahra Partovi” Zahra Partovi, whose artist book is featured in the special exhibition The Light of the Sufis, discusses her art in conversation with book artist Kelly Driscoll, Arts of the Islamic World curator Ladan Akbarnia, and principal librarian Deirdre Lawrence. The panel will address the production, collection, and display of Sufi-inspired artist books. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/shapeimage_6_link_0
April 1, 2009 Center for Book Arts Vincent FitzGerald received honorary award from Center for Book Arts, New Yorkhttp://www.centerforbookarts.orgshapeimage_7_link_0
January 15 - March 28, 2009 “A Poet Speaks” Sound & Image Installation by Zahra Partovi Center for Book Arts A Poet Speaks, an experimental installation with three diverse elements, represents a ‘temple’ to poetry and homage to the words of the 13th century poet J. M. Rumi. The physical core of the installation is a wall of paper sewn onto booking mull. The sheets of paper are covered with the words of the poet. The sound installation, enveloping the visitor from various directions, is continuous recorded utterances of Rumi’s poetry by 60 readers, sometimes as recitation, but often in speaking tone. The hypnotically repetitive ‘moving image’ installation metaphorically captures one of the most important principles of the poet’s philosophy. These three elements of the installation, the wall, the audio and the video contrast and complement one another to open a window through which the viewer and listener can have a glimpse of the world of an enigmatic poet. New Yorker Magazine reviewhttp://www.centerforbookarts.orghttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/03/a-poet-speaks.htmlshapeimage_12_link_0shapeimage_12_link_1
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Brooklyn Museum Blog regarding June 13th, 2009 event Sufi-Inspired Artist Books “Ruminations with Zahra Partovi”http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/2009/07/10/sufi-inspired-artist-books/shapeimage_14_link_0
“The Bus” a video by Zahra Partovi is completed and will be included in 2009 video_dumbo Film Festival. www.videodumbo.orghttp://www.videodumbo.orgshapeimage_15_link_0
Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn Presents Spring 2010 Concert Realms of Power & Desire: A Choral Celebration of Women Featuring a newly commissioned work by New York composer Jennifer Griffith THE REED J M Rumi Translation, Zahra Partovi 3 Performances Also works by Barber, Boulanger, Monteverdi, Schubert and Strozzi. Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7 pm Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene (Map) Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 7 pm St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church 157 Montague Street at Clinton St, Brooklyn Heights (Map) Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 4 pm Old First Reformed Church  126 7th Ave at Carroll Street, Park Slope (Map)http://www.graceandspiritus.org/node/11http://www.jennifergriffith.com/index.htmlhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=85+South+Oxford+Street,+Fort+Greene&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.609468,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=85+S+Oxford+St,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11217&z=17http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=157+Montague+Street+at+Clinton+St,+Brooklyn+Heights&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.609468,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=157+Montague+St,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11201&z=17http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=126+7th+Ave+at+Carroll+Street,+Park+Slope&sll=40.694672,-73.993009&sspn=0.006337,0.013937&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=126+7th+Ave,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11215&z=17shapeimage_16_link_0shapeimage_16_link_1shapeimage_16_link_2shapeimage_16_link_3shapeimage_16_link_4
THE BUS A Film by Zahra Partovi Screening Tuesday March 23, 2010 * 7PM Doors open at 6 PM Film Duration: 24 Minutes Sundaram Tagore Gallery 547 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 212-677-4520 Open to the public THE BUS A Film by Zahra Partovi Screening Monday April 19, 2010 *7:30 PM MAYSLES INSTITUTE 343 Malcolm X Blvd / Lenox Ave (Between 127th and 128th Streets) In celebration of New York City Mayor’s “Immigrant Heritage Week” www.catchingthebus.com http://www.sundaramtagore.comhttp://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/index.htmlhttp://www.catchingthebus.comshapeimage_17_link_0shapeimage_17_link_1shapeimage_17_link_2
FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT 5 2010 by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi. Translated by Zahra Partovi. Sculpture by Linda Schrank. Linda Schrank lives and works in New York City and in Lucignano, Val di Chiana, Italy. Her principal solo exhibitions include Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, NYC; Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC; Columbia University; Brown University; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Museum of Ceramics, Monte San Savino, Italy; and The Etruscan Museum, Cortona, Italy. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, among others, The Morgan Library and Museum, NYC; The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The New York Public Library; The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; The Boston Public Library; The International Museum of the Woman in Art, Abruzzo, Italy; and the Museo Regionale della Ceramica, Deruta, Italy. Linda Schrank has won residence grants at The American Academy in Rome, Italy; the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India; the Valparaiso Foundation, Almeria, Spain; Yaddo; The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; The Brooklyn Museum and The Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Philadelphia. She has also received two grants from the Pratt Faculty Development Fund where she teaches painting in the Graduate School of Fine Arts.47._FRAGMENT_OF_LIGHT_5.htmlshapeimage_18_link_0
Each of the 12 publication in the Masnavi series of the poetry of Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi in Zahra Partovi's translation, has been dedicated to the memory of an indivisual. "Fragments of Light 5" is dedicated to Sylvia Radov for her lifelong commitment to books. From Eulogy by Rabbi Dov Taylor at Congregation Solel on September 28th, 2006 A letter from Sylvia Radov to Rabbi Dov Taylor on September 15, 1994. Personal expression for Yom Kippur Morning. "On this special day I want to speak in praise and thanksgiving for our hands - yours, mine and those of all men and women. What a wondrous gift hands are! "My hands can caress a loved one, prepare a meal and convert clay into objects that are useful, interesting and may be even beautiful. Yours can write a poem, produce music, plant flowers, embroider a Chuppa or make a grand slam, no trump. "Our combined congregational hands have recently been extended through the Yad-le-Yad project to our fellow Jews in former Soviet Republics. "The use of hands to create and communicate is, for me, pure joy. "The twinges of pain in the hands experienced by people of my age are apart of life. Do you think their purpose is to keep us oldsters in line - or to remind us that if we want to do something we'd better do it now, for who knows what condition they will be in tomorrow! "The Hebrew word for hand is Yad. The little hand with extended forefinger used as pointer when reading the Torah is called a Yad. Extending that use of the word Yad leads us to thoughts of knowledge, wisdom and observance. "The same word Yad also means 'power'. It takes the power of good minds to direct our hands and develop and use their skills. Let us recognize this power and use it well. "I ask forgiveness for any evil done by my hands - whether intentional or not - and pray that we will have the strength and health to create good and beauty with our minds and hearts through the use of our hands."
REM & THE BUS Two Films by Zahra Partovi Screening Thursday March 31, 2011 *7PM Carl G. Jung Center 28 East 39th Street New York, NY 10016 Screening Sponsored by ARAS (Archive for Reserch in Archetypal Symbolism) http://aras.org/shapeimage_20_link_0
June 23, 2011 Lotos Club 5 East 66th Street New York, NY 10065 Vincent FitzGerald, Zahra Partovi and Joan Busing lecture/presentation at the Lotos Club in New York City, presenting the Divan-E-Shams, The Reed and A Woman’s Love & Life publications of Vincent FitzGerald & Co.http://www.lotosclub.org/shapeimage_23_link_0
The Best of Both Worlds Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street New York, NY 10065 Finely Printed Livres d’Artistes 1910- 2010 Exhibit Opening May 17, 2011 Vincent FitzGerald lecture/panel discussion May 26, 2011http://www.grolierclub.org/shapeimage_24_link_0
FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT 4 2009 by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi. Translated by Zahra Partovi With lithographs by Fran Siegel Edition: 35 Lithography printing: Kelly Driscoll Calligraphy: Jerry Kelly Letterpress printing: Kelly/Winterton Paper: Dieu Donné Papermill Laser cutting: Studio Associates Steel: Milgo Bufkin Box:BookLab II Page: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2” Book size: 13 x 9 1/2” FRAN SIEGEL’S light reactive drawings and installations engage perceptual shifts within architectural environments. Recent site-specific projects include her representation of the United States at the IX International Bienal of Cuenca, Ecuador, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Los Angeles projects include the Armory in Pasadena, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, and Rogue Wave at LA Louver. This past year Siegel’s work was included in “From and About Place - 7 Artists from LA” at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, curated by Alma Ruiz. Fran Siegel received the 2006 Individual Artist Fellowship from The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (C.O.L.A.). Residency awards include Yaddo, Edward Albee Foundation, Ucross Foundation, and the American Academy in Rome. Siegel is a nominee for the prestigious USA Artist Award. Siegel earned her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, and B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome. Published reviews of her work include Art in America, Art News, Asian Art News, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Art New England, ArtWeek, Arts, and Sculpture Magazines. 45._FRAGMENTS_OF_LIGHT_4.htmlshapeimage_25_link_0
TRANSITIONS 2009 by Judith Turner A portfolio of ten chromogenic prints on metallic paper. Edition: 20 Letterpress printing: the Kelly-Winterton Press Box: Just Plastics. Size: 5 x 5”. For further additions by Judith Turner, see: 22. PARABLES AND PIECES 27. AFTER 29. THE PARTHENON PEDIMENTS – Selected Fragments 31. DIVAN E SHAMS46._TRANSITIONS.html22._PARABLES_AND_PIECES.html27._AFTER.html29._THE_PARTHENON_PEDIMENTS.html31._DIVAN_E_SHAMS.htmlshapeimage_27_link_0shapeimage_27_link_1shapeimage_27_link_2shapeimage_27_link_3shapeimage_27_link_4
April 12, 2012 The Light of the Sublime Retrospective of Rumi Publications Rochester Institute of Technology Cary Graphic Arts Collection 90 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester NY 14623 Presented by Cary Graphic Arts Library Image of JM Rumi by Susan Weil November 18, 2011 7 PM Free admission The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan Gallery tour by Mr. William Voelkle, curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts. Zahra Partovi speaks of the poetry of J.M. Rumi. October 20, 2011 The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan Gallery tour for visiting committee by Mr. William Voelkle, curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts. For the Visiting Committee, Department of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts. Zahra Partovi spoke of Rumi’s poetry and question of translation.http://library.rit.edu/cary/http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=50http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=50shapeimage_33_link_0shapeimage_33_link_1shapeimage_33_link_2
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