The exhibition was an excellent success!
It was a first for many of our Association, as well as the SIFE team's first time organizing any such event, so putting those two things together with the outcome of our weekend, we should all be entirely and utterly impressed! Ok, I'll just speak for myself - I'm SO impressed! With the exception of a great lack of sleep, the event was fairly seamless and raised a lot of money to support the many women weavers, crocheters, and artist of the Association!
We had visitors from the American Embassy, Peace Corps
(including the Country Director), The Institute of Agricultural and Veterinary Studies, the Sports Club, and many others! We sold most of what we brought that was for sale, including carpets, woven pillow cases, woven shoes, crocheted hats, scarves, and tea cozy sets, traditional cous cous and art by the Association's local artist, Mohamed. Overall, the event took in almost $900! This is a fantastic outcome for these women! There was also a lot of opportunity for networking and for learning how to improve things for next time! Very exciting. I hope that this video will give you a sense of what the exhibition and products were like! Wish you could have been there! Everything here is from our Association except for the candles made from seashells (a Cooperative's project). The very first rugs that you see (and can see before the video starts) are made from entirely natural materials in the traditional process. The women shear the sheep, clean the wool, wind it, dye the wool with plants, and weave them! Beautiful.
Photos are:
The SIFE Group and Members of our Association
Sohad, my "roommate" for the weekend (from SIFE) with some of the work of Mohamed the Artist... At the Association they just call him "Fnan" or "Artist"
A detail of one of the Beautiful Kilim Carpets of a women in the Association
Me with Mohamed (Vice President) and Mohamed (aka Moumi, President)
4 comments:
How much do one of those woven rugs usually go for? What about the artist's painting? They must go for a lot less than we would price them here.
Whoa. How much was the plant with the picture hanging on it? That's ingenious! Was it your idea to hang the picture on the plant? It's a good thing that the PCVs can be there to bring innovative display treatments to the table :)
Hahaha...
I'm so proud of you ;)
Yeah, at that exhibtion, rugs ranged from about $30 - $150. And yes, for a handwoven rug, that is cheap. The lovely canvas painting or traditional weaving techniques were about a little over $30 too. Even in Rabat, a tiny watercolor painting sells for more than that... Pricing is something we are talking about, but the rugs are priced pretty competitively (underpriced, in my opinion).
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