who is yasmina?

Yasmina Seifeddine is a community organizer and visual artist who belongs to the Lebanese diaspora. She recently completed her undergraduate degree in Human Geography and Middle East Studies in so-called Vancouver, Canada as an uninvited guest on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) lands. She will be beginning a master’s program this September in Building and Urban Design in Development at the Bartlett’s Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL).

Yasmina enjoys working in water-based mediums, fine line pens and color pencil within a vibrant color palette. She primarily works on hand-drawn and oil paint portraiture and mixed media collages to convey messages relating to in/justice, world-building, and Middle Eastern communities.

Other than collage and hand-drawing, Yasmina enjoys writing and experimenting with ceramics and textile art.

Being largely inspired by a framework of critical hope, Yasmina creates her work with intention and a higher purpose. Today we are watching the world be ravaged by insipid imperial architecture and capitalist motives. Having learnt so much from the wise words and radical lenses of many great academics, knowledge keepers, and BIPOC/Southern feminists, Yasmina hopes to create work with and for the communities who are stewarding movements in the name of liberation, justice and care-oriented worlds.

Currently, Yasmina is recalibrating the theses of her work, including working towards creating art that can help “make the revolution irresistible” (drawn from the amazing writing of Ismatu Gwendolyn, who quotes this idea from the phenomenal Toni Cade Bambara) and interrogate what it means to tangibly manifest justice. As a result of working on Maktabat el-Yasmin, Yasmina is also inspired by the potential of archiving frameworks and mixed media knowledge-sharing in her future projects.

See Yasmina’s full CV here.