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ALPHA OMEGA ARTS 
By Greg Disney-Britton

Her work is like "stepping inside an Islamic mosque" said a bartender in Grand Rapids. "I've never experienced anything as sacred," said a woman at the art museum. Both were commenting on their engagement with "Intersections" by Anila Quayyum Agha. "The Intersections project," according to Agha, "takes the seminal experience of exclusion as a woman from a space of community and creativity such as a Mosque and translates the complex expressions of both wonder and exclusion that have been my experience while growing up in Pakistan." Last week, this finalist for the A&O Prize won the Grand Prize in the biggest of all arts competitions: the ArtPrize. We invite you to continue the dialogue about the NEWS OF WEEK, by voting for the 2014 A&O PRIZE.

In other religious art news from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhist Art of Week: “Thai Charisma: Heritage + Creative Power” exhibit [More News]
• Christian Art of Week: Christina Saj in "Amen – A Prayer for the World" [More News]
• Hindu Art of Week: Art and Political History Through Stones and Temples [More News]
• Islamic Art of Week: Ka’bah in Makkah Adorned With New Covering [More News]
• Judaic Art Week: Avital Geva's ‘Living Sukkah’ at the JCC in Manhattan [More News]

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