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This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz is a visual artist whose signature work of detailed oil paintings on rough, cast plaster substrates is held in numerous public and private collections, among them the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Rose Art Museum, and the Worcester Art Museum. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the Massachusetts Cultural Foundation. In 2013, Spatz-Rabinowitz will travel with thearcticcircle.org expedition residency to the North Pole for two weeks, in preparation for future work. Professor of Art Emerita of Wellesley College (2008), Spatz-Rabinowitz is currently visiting-part-time faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.