A lullaby of lost love

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.

Joshua received his BFA from SMU and his MFA from Boston University, and has exhibited his work internationally in solo shows in venues such as the Zendai Museum of Modern Art and Shanghai University in Shanghai, China, in addition to group shows at the Museum of the National Library in Madrid. Spain, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina and at Loyola University, Rome, Italy. Joshua has also exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Boston Center for the Arts, Janet Turner Print Museum in California, in addition to venues in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Washington D.C., Austin, Houston and Dallas, and is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, Penang State Museum in Malaysia, Cabildo de La Palma in Spain, and the Naval Academy Museum in Maryland. Joshua has been a Visiting Artist or Guest Critic at Shanghai University, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Dartmouth College, Marist College and Savannah College of Art and Design. He was recently awarded the Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art and is currently the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas.