We Are Uyghur: Artist Q&A with Susan Kattas

January 21, 2014 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project We are Uyghur. Collage by Susan Kattas.Photograph of the artwork courtesy of the artist. Susan Kattas, a Hudson, Wisconsin-based artist, recently created a collage inspired by the Uyghurs’ cultural struggle under Chinese government repression. The collage was part of the 45th Parallel Exhibition celebrating peoples…

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Mazar Shrine Book Launch Details State Control Cautiously

February 20, 2013 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Photographer Lisa Ross spent eight years studying and photographing mazar, Uyghur religious shrines, across East Turkestan, and the resulting images can be seen in a new book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China. Ross spoke at a book launch at the Rubin Museum in New York…

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Art on Uyghurs in NYC Highlights China’s Information Control

December 7, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project To inaugurate Forever & Today’s gallery opening in New York’s Chinatown in 2008, the artist collective Slavs and Tatars made a poster: “Keep Your Majorities Close But Your Minorities Closer.”  Slavs and Tatars focuses on Eurasia from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of…

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