of them. As an American immigrant she feels comfortable in the United States, but explains that she typically needs to offer lengthy introductions to her use of religious and feminist ritualistic symbols to non Saudi or Arab women and audiences. Al-Mansour often depicts portraits of Muslim women in architectural spaces using materials made out of silk screened, dyed or hennaed fabrics. Figured prominently in her pictorial images are stylized figures and faces intertwined with Islamic ornamentation composed using repeated, patterned forms. For example, a screen print from 2013 entitled Facebook 1 shows two women wearing dark blue chadors and seated on a patterned rug in an interior space. The woman in the foreground looks out at the viewer as she writes, with her right hand, words in Arabic on a large open book with white pages that dominates the background of the image. Behind the open book is a red-checkered, patterned field based on a scarf pattern typically worm by Saudi men. The woman in the background has her head down, which the artist has identified as a kind of self-portrait: "It symbolizes for me, that this woman has accepted what is going on, without resistance. It represents a side of me that might have accepted things in the past." In her large-scale installations, Al-Mansour uses large sheets of silk, wool, canvas, or other fabric. Her installations resemble shrines, tents or mosques in which the viewer walks in: they include archways, domes, sand, cushions, rugs, bowls or geometric sculptures and distinctive Middle Eastern perfumes and scents that reflect aspects of her subjects' personalities and cultures. In the 2014 exhibition titled How to Be a Feminist Artist, which took place at the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine University, Al-Mansour's featured works examined the role of Muslim women in modern society. She included traditional Islamic elements like passages from the Quran and vivid Arabic textile patterns and designs to express gender disparity towards women. Selected exhibitions Radical Love: Female Lust (group show) 2017, at The Crypt Gallery The Great Mother of Islam 2014, at Cathering G Murphy gallery How to Be a Feminist Artist 2014, at Catherine G Murphy gallery Continuity and Change (group show) 2007, at Fatimah in America (solo show) 2007, at Arousat Al-Moulid (design and choreography) 2007, in collaboration with Jawaahir Dance Company Prizm of longing (group show) 2006, at The Phipps Center for the Arts Fatimah