Huda Totonji

Huda Totonji is an established Arab female artist. She obtained her BA in Studio Art and MFA in Art and Visual Technology from the US with academic excellence.  She is a master calligrapher certified in teaching Arabic Calligraphy (Ijazat Alkhat Alarabi). As a great enhancement for future leadership in academia, her interest in scholarly research guided the completion of her PhD degree in Fine Art and Visual Technology.

Having been born and raised in Saudi Arabia, the Eastern thought is where she came from. Living her adulthood in the United States allowed the Western thought to shape her identity in the West. Huda comes from two civilizations, one that expresses itself visually through the ‘word’ and the other that expresses itself through ‘pictorial’ and figurative (representation) language.  Being able to combine both the Eastern and Western ideology has been a constant interest in Huda’s artistic approach. This furthermore exposed her to Eastern and Western educational systems. Read More