MAEP Artist Talk: Hend Al-Mansour
Join us for an engaging conversation with Hend Al-Mansour, a Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) artist, and Nicole Soukup, supervisor of the MAEP.
The pair will discuss Al-Mansour’s current exhibition “Hend Al-Mansour: Mihrabs: Portraits of Arab American Women,” on view July 19 through October 26, 2025, as well as her artistic practice. Yara Omer will read a poem inspired by the exhibition.
The exhibition is part of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, celebrating 50 years in 2025.
Support provided by RBC Wealth Management.
Free tickets available August 7.
Saudi American artist Hend Al-Mansour studied medicine in Cairo, Egypt, and practiced medicine in Saudi Arabia. She was a fellow in cardiology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. In addition to her medical degree, Al-Mansour holds an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MA in art history from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul. She’s exhibited internationally and received numerous awards, including the Minnesota State Art Board’s (MSAB) Creative Support in 2024 and 2022; the MSAB Artist Initiative grant in 2019; the McKnight Fellowship in 2018; the Jerome Fellowship of Printmaking in 2013/14; and the Juror’s Award of the Contemporary Islamic Art in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2012. Al-Mansour is a member of Rosalux Gallery; the Interfaith Artists group; and The Habibties, a group of multiethnic women artists that promotes cultural diversity in the United States.
Yara Omer is an educator. She loves reading and writing novels. Omer writes in Arabic and English and has been published in several anthologies and journals, such as Saint Paul Almanac, Mizna, the Fourth River, the Cracked Walnut, and MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency). She participated in the Community Editor program with Saint Paul Almanac. She also edited for the Cracked Walnut’s Rewilding Hope and served as a judge for the Minnesota Author Project and the Minnesota Book Awards. Omer enjoys nature, astronomy, art, and literature.