Art Jameel to resume activities amid tight precautionary measures against COVID-19

CAIRO – 5 August 2020: The Cultural Development Fund sector begins work with the Art Jameel Heritage Arts [Beautiful Art] program, which is held in cooperation with Prince Charles School of Heritage Arts -which drew its concept from Islamic arts- at the Crafts Center in Fustat after the development of the exceptional work plan.

The plan includes a practical part, in which students from each semester are divided into two groups. The first group works on Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, and the second group works on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday outdoors and in open spaces, with emphasis on taking all safety and precautionary measures to battle COVID-19.

As for theoretical part, the lectures will be recorded and presented to students in limited groups, and graduation projects will be evaluated at the end of September 2020.

It is noteworthy that Prince Charles School is one of the important schools concerned with traditional crafts and heritage arts; it includes the most famous professors of design and heritage arts in the world.

The scholarships are provided in the fields of studying drawing skills, free perspective, free drawing and color studies, teaching gypsum and stained glass crafts, ceramics, veneer woodworking, and metalwork (copper discharge) and its various techniques.

The Art Jameel House provides study programs for local contemporary artists and craftsmen in traditional arts in Egypt. It uses the skills acquired in this program in practice to preserve and restore Islamic heritage sites in Cairo and supports graduates who are job seekers in the field of heritage or aiming for entrepreneurship in heritage arts.