Education
2024 BFA, Albion College—Fine Arts Major (Printmaking and Ceramics Concentration), Art History Minor
2022 Penland School of Craft
The Mechanical Image: Process, Modularity, and Distributed Form
Exhibitions
2024 Boring—Hybrid Show, The Holy Art, London, UK
2024 Would You Be Content? Senior Exhibition, Albion College, Albion, MI
2024 FURSCA Grant Undergraduate Duo Exhibition, Albion College, Albion, MI
2023 19th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition, McGroarty Arts Center, Tijuana, CA
Residencies
2025 Directangle Press, Bethlehem, NH (Upcoming)
Speaking, Press, Publications
2025 Needlebound: Volume II, Montreal, QC (Upcoming)
2025 Aesthetics of Solidarity Symposium: Michigan State University Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI (Upcoming)
“Reconstructions: Recording, Healing, and Home-Remaking in Contemporary Arab American Art” with Dr. Nancy Demerdash and Marina Ballout
2024 Elkin Isaac Student Research Symposium, Albion College, Albion, MI
Venus Fly Trap
2024 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium, State University of New York at New Paltz
“Fingernails Maketh Man: Ambiguous Morality in De La Tour’s The Fortune Teller”
2024 Arab American Studies Association 2024 Conference, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
“Of Displacement and Diaspora: Healing through (Re)Constructions Homeland in Contemporary Arab-American Art (With Marina Ballout and Dr. Nancy Demerdash)”
2023 Art on Screen, Ten Questions with Mixed-Media Artist Rana Huwais
2023 Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, 10 Questions with Rana Huwais
2023 Artist Talk, Albion College, Albion, MI
2023 Albion Pleiad, Albion Artist Rana Huwais Channels Love, Anger and Cultural Commentary in Her Work, Albion, MI
Curation
2024 Albion College Dickinson Gallery, Curated and Led Installation, Albion, MI
I Forget Which of Them I Dream In
2023 Albion College Dickinson Gallery, Curated and Led Installation, Albion, MI
Your Name Here: Authorship & Anonymity in European Prints from the 12th to 16th Centuries
These Threads of Life
Head of a Woman
2023 Albion College Dickinson Gallery, Co-Curated and Installed, Albion MI
A Global Outcry: Human Rights Around The World
Awards & Honors
2024 Outstanding Senior Studio Art Award
2023 Foundation for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (FURSCA) Research Grant Recipient
2023 Albion Fellows Inductee
2022 Penland School of Craft Scholarship
The Mechanical Image: Process, Modularity, and Distributed Form
2021 Albion College, Presidential Scholarship
Art Related Experience
2024 Promotional Poster & Merchandise Design for Would You Be Content? Group Exhibition, Albion MI
2024 Promotional Poster and Pamphlet Design, Albion MI
I Forget Which of Them I Dream In
2023 Student Art Sale, Artist & Co-Planner, Albion, MI
2023 Albion College Munro Gallery, Assisted in Installation, Albion, MI
Albion Alumni Show
Look Closely – 2023 Senior Showcase
2023 Albion College, 207 S Superior Street, Assisted in Installation, Albion, MI
#OurAlbion
2023 Albion College, Promotional Poster Design, Albion, MI
Look Closely – 2023 Senior Showcase
These Threads of Life
Head of a Woman
2022 Albion College Art Department, Printmaking Teaching Assistant, Albion, MI
2022 Albion College Dickinson Gallery, Assisted in Installation, Albion, MI
Prints From The Albion College Collection—American Art