PhxArtist Talks is an ongoing series featuring local, regional, and nationally acclaimed artists, providing behind-the-scenes footage and uncovering the stories behind many of the featured works in PhxArt exhibitions. Sama Alshaibi For this episode, we spoke with Sama Alshaibi, the 2021 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient. Alshaibi’s photographic imagery, video, and installation, on

Jacob van Ruisdael is considered by historians and critics alike to be the greatest Dutch landscape painter. His work often depicts quiet, pleasant, pastoral scenes of flowing water, trees, and cloudy skies of the Dutch countryside. A River Landscape with a Waterfall is characteristic of his oeuvre—a turbulent waterfall cascading into a pond surrounded by