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Reham is a mosaic artist known for her bold use of color and her love of unusual textural inclusions
when creating her art. She favors a less traditional style, opting for a more modern, playful look.
Rehams mosaic career began with a trip to Berkeley, CA for some basic instruction from Dimitry Grudsky, a bay area mosaic artist. She continues to develop her technique, while taking classes to enhance her work, and expand her mosaic palette of materials.

Reham is best known for her three-dimensional mosaiced torsos, but her architecturally integrated mosaics pieces are quickly gaining in popularity and number. One of her most popular examples of functional mosaic is inside Dawson Taylor coffee shop in downtown Boise. Reham has also completed three public art projects for the City of Boise, the first is on the Boise Greenbelt at the Warm Springs Public Golf Course, the second is in Peppermint Park, in West Boise. The third is in the Linen District, and she is currently working on numbers four and five at the Hulls Gultch Learning Center, and Elm Grove park.

Reham began exhibiting in 1998 at the Art Source Gallery, as well as offering a selection of her functional art in local boutiques and gift shops. From 2000-2008 she could be found at the Capital City Public Market, and various art events throughout Idaho. In Dec.'2008 Rehams torsos were featured at R. Gray Gallery, Boise's most exciting glass and jewelry space, where she continues to display the majority of her torso collection through the present time.

A firm supporter of buying local, Reham is also a founding member of Art4Art, a not for profit artist co-op that contributes to area children's art programs.
Reham also takes an active role in the community by donating art annually to We Art Women, The Bra Project, Valentines for AIDS, the Shakespeare Festival, and Ballet Idaho.

In 2003 Reham also established Mosaic Essential, a full service mosaic walk-in workshop and studio, after her first book “Mosaics for the first time” was published. Through the classes and mentoring programs at the studio, Reham has been able to nurture new mosaic artists in her community, teach at area schools, and assist various organizations, schools, YMCA and day care facilities to create their own pieces of art to keep or auction for fundraisers.

In 2005 with the generous support of camp discovery's founding family, Reham/ Mosaic Essential also created a mosaic program for Idahos leading childrens hospital St. Luke's, focusing primarily on the childrens cancer ward, which has now been expanded to the areas remaining hospitals and cancer treatment facilities ( St. Alphonse's/MISTI), and now includes adults and cancer survivors.

Reham was born and raised in Kuwait, and moved to Boise Idaho as a refugee during the Gulf war. She was very fortunate to be raised in an artistic family. Her uncle Mousa Aarti had the most influence on her, because he is a master of mixed media, as she hopes to one day be. Reham lives in Boise with her two sons, Shahien, and Hishom.

What you should know

I work in Mosaic because I love the feeling of creating beauty out of random things, and because with every mosaic I make, I am filled again with the understanding that in this art form, as well as in life, all the pieces that make up the whole are equally important in the final picture.

songs I love to work to
I choose, by India Arei
I’m yours, by Jason Mraz
Born to fly, by Sara Evans
Baby girl, by Sugarland