about

The Bee Kingdom is a project by artist and writer Joy Amina Garnett. Drawing on materials left behind by her grandfather, the Egyptian poet and bee scientist Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955), The Bee Kingdom explores forgotten histories across different mediums including printmaking, artist books, and creative writing. Garnett’s short stories and memoir excerpts have appeared in ellipse magazine, Nashville Review, Evergreen Review, Rusted Radishes, Arab Urbanism Magazine, Full Blede, and Ibraaz. Her chapter about her research was included in Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought, and Literature (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury 2020). She has exhibited her work at the Whitney Museum, MoMA–PS1, FLAG Art Foundation, Artists Space, Smack Mellon, White Columns (all in NY); the Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland (OR), Boston University Art Gallery, National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), and the Witte Zaal (Ghent, Belgium). Her paintings are held in the permanent collections of the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), Altria, and The West Collection (Oaks, PA), and numerous private collections. Garnett has received grants from Anonymous Was a Woman, United States Artists, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Wellcome Trust, and the Chipstone Foundation. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and iCommons Dubrovnik. Garnett is the art director of Evergreen Review.

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