SaveArtSpace x Slow Factory is proud to present Feed Gaza / End the Genocide, a public art exhibition on wheat paste ad space in Brooklyn, NY, starting November 19, 2025, curated by Slow Factory.

The Feed Gaza / End the Genocide selected artist is Michael Hambouz.

Opening November 19, 2025, SaveArtSpace will launch a public art installation for the selected artwork on wheat paste ad space in Brooklyn, NY. The public art will be on view for up to four weeks.

Selected Artist

Location: Nassau Ave & Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, MI) is a multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hambouz received a B.A. from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, and has been awarded residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and Wassaic Project in upstate New York. His work has exhibited internationally and has been featured in Artnet News, Design Milk, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times among others, and can be seen in the collections of Antioch College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Niles History Center, and NYU Langone Medical Center. His award-winning illustrations have been featured in ad campaigns including Dexter, The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Matador Records, and Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, to beer cans for local breweries and t-shirts to support his local Yemeni-family-owned corner store.

Artist Statement: Hambouz's practice gravitates around his relationship with loss and reflections on life spent in the rural Midwest, pre and post-September 2001 New York City, and in the cybersphere as a first-generation Palestinian-American. Experimenting freely with mediums—conceptually abstracted multidimensional paintings and prints, intricate cut-paper works, drawings, sculpture, and animations—he encourages honesty, tactile challenges, and unexpected results to bloom in the studio, often under the guidance of music. For this particular piece, Hambouz reached for his longtime trusty drawing tool--a sharpie--and simply illustrated a very clear, palpable and extremely bare-basics human rights' call. Coloring-in the line drawings with bright vibrant hues to not only draw attention to the urgency from onlookers, but to also shed some light and positivity on a beautiful land where his late father was born.

Connect with Michael at @mhambouz & @makemetrembledesign.

Curator

Slow Factory is an award-winning movement organization and knowledge lab designing and building infrastructure for cultural freedoms for Indigenous & Global South-led communities. In an era of censorship, disinformation, and systemic erasure, we create public tools, open-source education, curricula, and campaigns that empower communities to recognize propaganda, challenge dominant narratives, and reclaim their right to speak, know, and dissent.

Connect with Slow Factory at @theslowfactory.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.