Aaron Cezar

My name is Aaron Cezar and I’m the Director of Delfina Foundation, in London.  Delfina Foundation is an arts organization that works globally providing opportunities for artists and thinkers to develop their practice through residencies, exhibitions and events.  For the last three years, Delfina Foundation and Art Jameel have been strategic partners working together to nurture and promote art from, and in relation to, the Middle East.

Whilst our relationship with Art Jameel might seem short, at three years, it feels like we’ve been working together for much longer.  Perhaps this is because we share mutual aims, and over the last decade, or more, we have been admiring Art Jameel’s commitment to art education, to access to the arts and developing individual practitioners, artists and curators.  Now people, ultimately, make up organizations and the conviction and the power of the arts to transform society is one that is strongly held by everyone whom I have had direct contact with, from Mohammad Jameel, to Fady Jameel, Antonia Carver, the Director of Art Jameel as well as the entire team at Community Jameel.  

I think the notion of ‘family’ defines Abdul Latif Jameel, as well as our work at Delfina Foundation.  And here I’m not talking about bloodlines; I’m talking about how one engages in the world; develops external partnerships, and cares for the wider community as well as the planet.

Delfina Foundation is very thankful for our strategic partnership which has sustained our vital work and we congratulate Abdul Latif Jameel on 75 years of philanthropy.

 

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