Lori Wood
Founder, Fez
Medina
California & Fez, Morocco
Lori Wood,
Founder of Fez Medina, has an extensive background in the
field of artist residency programs and social
entrepreneurship. Lori directed the Villa Montalvo Artist Residency Program in California
from 1991-1995. She spent two years on the boards of both the
Alliance of Artists Communities and Res Artis: The International Network of
Residential Arts Centres. During
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Fez, where she studied Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute.
Sometimes from the edge of the Sahara desert and sometimes
from the traditional Arab house she was renovating in the
twelfth-century souks of Fez, she
was in almost daily internet contact with colleagues in Germany,
Ireland, India, the United States, France, the Netherlands,
the Czech Republic, Italy, and Cyprus. Lori holds a
BA in Literature from Harvard College, an MBA from The Wharton
School and a Masters in International Studies from the University
of Pennsylvania. In the future, she plans to create a network
of artist residency programs in countries such as Morocco
and VietNam. Lori’s US base is in Royal Oaks, California,
where she lives with her husband of five years, Hassan Hmadou, who was born and raised in the
medina of Fez.
Rachid Tabib
Official Guide
Based in the Fez Medina
Bio coming soon.
Hafed el Amrani
Manager, Pasha Baghdadi Massriya
Based in the Fez Medina
Bio coming soon. |
