Josh Berer, Patricia Daher & Nia Alexander Campbell
IMPART Grant Artists
March 3–April 2, 2023

The Qatar America Institute for Culture (QAIC) is pleased to present an exhibition of its inaugural IMPART Artists Grant awardees. The multimedia works on display by Josh Berer, Nia Alexander Campbell and Patricia Daher were supported by QAIC’s IMPART Artist Grant, an annual prize which supports the artistic ventures and incubation of three emerging and mid-career artists projects.
The grant program and the awardees Berer, Campbell and Daher, represent QAIC’s mission of cultivating expression and cultural dialogue from the United States, Qatar and the larger Arab and Islamic worlds, and philosophy of empowering artists and connecting creatives.

About Josh Berer:

Josh Berer is a classically trained calligrapher and craftsman based in Washington, D.C. He was born in 1985 in Pennsylvania and grew up in British Columbia. He comes from a family of artists and began learning the fundamentals of craft at an early age. At the university, he studied Arabic language and moved to Yemen in 2007 where he became immersed in the study of Islamic legal theory and classical literature. It was in Yemen that he was first exposed to the art of Islamic calligraphy. He received his Ijazah [master calligrapher’s certification] in the Thuluth and Naskh scripts from Mohamed Zakariya, and is currently a student of Talik Script. He is also versed in the arts of papermaking, marbling, illumination, bookbinding, and woodworking. He speaks Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, in descending order of confidence.

About Patricia Daher:

Patricia Daher (b. 1988) is an American Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, poet, and environmental activist based in New York. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting and Near-Eastern Religions along with two minors in Art History and Mathematics from Hunter College, New York. Her Master’s degree is in Art Market Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Daher started her career as a Mathematics Educator who contributed to the academic success of hundreds of students to then proceed on a different path as a Visual Artist who produces autobiographical paintings, drawings, collages, and relational aesthetic performances that encourage dialogue and invite a change in perspective. Her many interests which include world cultures and religions, mythology, science, archeology, nutrition, sustainability, and alternative healing methods inform the themes she explores in her work. Having experienced war in 2006, she chooses to go beyond and create autobiographical vibrant worlds that explore cultural histories and concepts promoting peace and balance in society and with nature. Daher’s work has been exhibited at various galleries in New York, of which NeueHouse and Biggercode Gallery. A recipient of the Wave Scholarship, Catalyst scholarship award, and the IMPART Grant Award, her work has been published in Hyperallergic and featured in books such as Drawing with Dynamic Perspective by Meryl Rosner.

About Nia Alexander Campbell:

Nia Alexander Campbell is an artist, designer, writer, and educator from Richmond, Virginia. She received a BFA in Painting & Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and a minor in Art History with an emphasis on Black art and cinema history. She later received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Design from VCUarts Qatar where she developed the modular board
game Reclamancipation as her thesis. As an instructor, she uses her creative knowledge and passion for social equity to teach those who will become future decision makers.
Nia’s creative practice explores the ways collage, writing, and traditional & digital painting methods can be used to tell stories through design. She believes that storytelling in any medium can function as an excellent way to combat ignorance, give a voice to the otherwise unheard, and bridge the divides wicked problems create. In both her visual and written work, Nia is passionate about inclusion and sharing the experiences of marginalized communities, making a point to depict more than just trauma narratives.