The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre is the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world. The life work of its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911-1974) was dedicated to releasing the innate creativity of young Egyptian villagers freed from the constraints of a formal education.

Ramses Wissa Wassef wrote:

"I had this vague conviction that every human being was born an artist, but that his or her gifts could be brought out only if artistic activity was encouraged from early childhood by way of practising a craft... The creative energy of the average person is being sapped by a conformist system of education and the extension of industrial technology to every sphere of modern life."

The following web page is a brief history of the school, an on-line gallery displaying highlights of the work of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre weavers.

http://www.wissa-wassef-arts.com/ 

Ramses Wessa Wassef Art Center

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/wessa.htm

Explore the above sites to prepare for the upcoming OK A+ Schools Project.

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