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State: California
Country: United States
Year at Headlands: 2006
Discipline: literary
Program: artist in residence
Youmna Chlala utilizes her experiences growing up in Beirut speaking Arabic and French and moving to Los Angeles as tools to affect her layered work in written and visual language. Her work ranges from large-scale painting and installation to hand-bound books of poetry with the narrative of stories unifying her mission. In the second year of her MFA program at California College of Art (CCA), Chlala founded Eleven Eleven {1111}, a journal of literature and art. She continues to edit the journal and lecture at CCA. Chlala has published in the Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2005) and The Journal of Cross Poetics (2004); she has held readings at the National Arab American Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF.
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