Early life Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon to Palestinian parents in 1952.

As a teenager, I was sketching, drawing, and I wanted to be an artist.

My mom's an artist, and as a child I'd often see her bring things to life with the stroke of a brush.

Video I'm iO Tillett Wright, and I'm an artist born and raised in New York City.

I'm an artist, so I'd like to offer a modest proposal at the intersection of art, science and culture.

Used with PRI's permission So with her sister Wiande, also a writer and their sister Kula, an artist, Moore set out to change that.

Ghada Amer (, born 1963 in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist living and working in New York City.

Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), better known simply as Brandy, is an American recording artist and entertainer.

In fact, I brought in a mosaic artist from the Vatican, an African American woman who had studied the old Vatican mosaic techniques, and let me show you what they did with the work.

In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Radio Songs Artist of the Decade, the Top Female Artist of the 2000s and their Artist of the Millennium in 2011.

And now, I realize that as the musician, we human beings, we have a great mind, artistic heart and skill that can change the 16th century technology and a legendary design to a wonderful entertainment.

In January 2016, Hawi Tezera, another Oromo singer who comforted and inspired protesters through her songs, was imprisoned.

Oddly enough, an artist such as myself finds herself also in the position of being the voice, the speaker of my people, even if I have, indeed, no access to my own country.

Annie Lennox joined forces with Anastacia and 22 other female artists to raise awareness of the transmission of HIV to unborn children in Africa.

In December 2012, she received three nominations Best Female Artist, Best Song and Best Video (for In My City ) at the World Music Awards.

Being a visual artist, indeed, I am foremost interested to make art to make art that transcends politics, religion, the question of feminism, and become an important, timeless, universal work of art.

It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences.

The site received international attention when Dublin artist Susanna Drury made watercolour paintings of it in 1739 they won Drury the first award presented by the Royal Dublin Society in 1740 and were engraved in 1743.

I use Jackson Pollock on purpose as an example because there's a young American artist who paints very much in the style of Jackson Pollock, and her work was worth many tens of thousands of dollars in large part because she's a very young artist.

Toba Shahabi, an Afghan artist who has been paying visits to and raising funds for a number of refugee camps, shared on Facebook traumatic excerpts from conversations she had during her visit to the Calais Jungle refugee camp located in northern France.