About

Areej Itayem is a Palestinian-American visual artist working in wearable sculptures, textiles, performance, and video. Her work aims to remix standards of fashion and textiles to create costumes and clothing that comment on cultural expectations and aims to disrupt some of those norms. She has received her BA from the Corcoran School of Art and Design at the George Washington University. She has also studied fashion design at Accademia Italiana Arte Moda and Design in Florence, Italy.