Fatana Baktash

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As an exceptional visual artist, illustrator, art instructor, and Author Fatana Baktash Arifi is a renowned Artist in Afghanistan as well as dynamic artist in the United States. She creates attractive works in watercolor, oil, charcoal, Pastel, pen & ink and collage. Fatana’s private technique, Handasism has its particular marks of elegance. Fatana also is a unique portraiture Artist. She is the member of National Association of Women Artists of New York, Empowered Women International, Gallery West, Springfield Art Guild and Afghanistan National Association of the Artists (1980s). She actively participated in several artistic endeavors: received numerous awards, international recognition, and sales. She taught the different level of Art classes at art centers, colleges, and universities at the United States, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. In 1995, Fatana founded The Maimanagi Art Center, in Pakistan to provide art services, learning opportunities and hope for talented Afghan refugees struggling to cope with displacement. As an illustrator and designer, Fatana has received numerous illustration assignments from many international organizations and individual sources included the United Nations and U.S based organizations. Her illustrated children’s books and illustrated short stories published in children magazines are loved by children and teens of all ages and are a considerable contribution to children’s art and literature of Afghanistan. Inspiring from the accomplishment of those implemented projects Fatana established The Art Production department at Maimanagi Art Center in 1996 at Pakistan served community through the arts. Presently she is the founder president and C.E.O of Baktash Art Circle (BAC). She is the author of Painting and Its Status in Afghanistan published by the ministry of culture of Afghanistan, the founder of Art & Culture publication established by her in Pakistan at 1990s and the author of her own art technique named Handasisim. She earned her M.F.A Master of Fine arts degree from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Have a B.F.A degree in Fine Arts from Kabul University, She also is graduated from Thompson College of Education Direct in the United States and from Maimanagi Art School, Kabul, Afghanistan. Fatana’s art and interviews have been published and broadcast worldwide through the number of Media and TV channels.