Illustrator & Painter — Iraq
Aryan Sarsam
Three decades of drawing for children — school books, story books and paintings, made in Iraq and read across Kurdistan.
30+
Years illustrating
100
Issues of Hang magazine
40+
Illustrated stories
3
Languages spoken
Selected work
Work from the studio
Illustrator & Painter
About the artist
Drawing for children since childhood
Aryan Sarsam has taken part in art exhibitions since she was a child, and held her own show while still in secondary school.
She joined Hang magazine as an illustrator in 1996 and stayed with it until its hundredth issue. Today she works at the General Directorate of Curriculum & Printing, where her drawings reach children in every classroom.
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Organisations and publishers
UNICEF
World Food Programme
MEDS
Save the Children
Aras Publishing House
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Health
Kurdistan Child Protection Agency
Hiwa (Al-Amal)
Women's Organization
Brayati Newspaper
Hang Magazine