Doris Bittar is an award-winning artist, writer, educator, and community organizer living and working in Southern California. Thematically, her paintings and projects often link cultural patterns– which she describes as cultural DNA– to migration crossing political boundaries. Bittar’s textured and improvisational paintings from this period reach back into personal history and are anchored within the haze of colonial legacies. Her art is housed in international museum collections and she is the first Arab American California Arts Council Legacy Artist. Bittar has taught for 25 years in several American universities and international institutions and has authored a number of scholarly essays and opinion pieces.