Saudi Arabia's Misk Art Institute has announced the winners of the 2021 Misk Art Grant, the first grant cycle open to non-Saudi nationals as well as Saudi artists.
The award is in its second year and carries a grant of 1,000,000 Saudi riyals ($267,000). The money helps to fund projects pitched to the institute by hopeful artists, with the recipients also receiving mentorship from a committee of artists and art professionals.
The grantees this year are Saudi artists Rashed Alshashai, Basma Felemban, and Obaid Alsafi; Kuwaiti artist Mishari AlNajjar; Nour Alwan from Bahrain; Latifa Saeed, Afra Al Dhaheri, and architects Jawaher Almutairi and Mira Almazrooei from the UAE; and French-Algerian artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah.
The theme this year is “Under Construction”, which Misk relates to the emerging cultural scenes within the Arab region. Particular focus is given to questions of identity, community and cultural representation – all key themes in contemporary Arab work, especially in the Gulf.
The award is in its second year, and this year's jury is made up of artists was Reem Fadda, director of Abu Dhabi's Cultural Foundation; Laila Alfaddagh, director general of Saudi Arabia's National Museum; Myrna Ayad, a cultural strategist and former Art Dubai director; and Konstantinos Chatziantoniou, head of collections and conservation at the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, also known as Ithra, in Dhahran.
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There are numerous success stories of teen businesses that were created in college dorm rooms and other modest circumstances. Below are some of the most recognisable names in the industry:
- Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and his friends started Facebook when he was a 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate.
- Dell: When Michael Dell was an undergraduate student at Texas University in 1984, he started upgrading computers for profit. He starting working full-time on his business when he was 19. Eventually, his company became the Dell Computer Corporation and then Dell Inc.
- Subway: Fred DeLuca opened the first Subway restaurant when he was 17. In 1965, Mr DeLuca needed extra money for college, so he decided to open his own business. Peter Buck, a family friend, lent him $1,000 and together, they opened Pete’s Super Submarines. A few years later, the company was rebranded and called Subway.
- Mashable: In 2005, Pete Cashmore created Mashable in Scotland when he was a teenager. The site was then a technology blog. Over the next few decades, Mr Cashmore has turned Mashable into a global media company.
- Oculus VR: Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR in June 2012, when he was 19. In August that year, Oculus launched its Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $1 million in three days. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion two years later.
