Artist at azraq refugee camp

USA for UNHCR's Elizabeth Marks recently traveled to Jordan and saw firsthand how art and the creative process solidified a message of hope....

Core region | Syrian Refugees and Host Communities

Artolution has been organizing community-based art projects in Jordan since 2013, working in the Azraq and Za’atari refugee camps and in host communities across the country.

Abo Ali is the architect behind one of the most photographed structures at the camp, the clay arches in front of his house.

14 year old Raya* is a Syrian refugee whose love for painting started at a very early age.

USA for UNHCR's Elizabeth Marks recently traveled to Jordan and saw firsthand how art and the creative process solidified a message of hope.

The Artmongers' team created sustainable “Azraq mosaics” with the help of Syrian refugee artists Samir and Abu Abdallah.

In Azraq Camp, an artist team led by Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim has engaged dozens of children and teens through public art, and is now developing an arts-based.

We have trained over 25 artists there—Jordanian, Syrian and international—in our methodology.

In February of 2019, Artolution partnered with UNICEF to start a new program in Azraq Syrian Refugee Camp that continues to this day.

10 Artolution-trained and certified artists, all Syrian refugees and camp residents, lead mural projects year-round, reaching hundreds more budding leaders.

Sculpture program at Azraq Refugee camp

We have worked extensively in schools across the country, bringing together hundreds of children and adolescents from Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian backgrounds, who have worked together toward a common artistic and social vision.

Thanks to our partners at the German agency GIZ for their support.

Last year, we launched our