Beirut Art Salon

beirut art salon is an initiative that uses community spaces to allow talented pioneering artists to exhibit their work for free, give open talks about various themes in art, and allow the public to enjoy low-rate workshops on different interesting methods in art - such as arabic calligraphy. we had a very successful launch in altcity’s past location in manhattan hamra during december 2015. throughout that month we were able to attract 850 attendees to see the exhibited work, attend various talks, and take up classes with some of these pioneering artists. beirut art salon also collaborated on an exhibition in aub outdoors in 2016, and helped organize an art competition by the lebanese oil and gas initiative towards the end of 2016. important to beirut art salon’s mission is bridging the gap between the lack of exposure and investment pioneering artists get, and the lack of exposure and sufficient finances by people from middle and poorer socioeconomic classes. sadly in lebanon, art