Career
She is a Kuwaiti artist and writer. She began her artistic career at an early age. She received her academic training in Cairo, Egypt at the "College of Fine Arts" during 1972 and 1973 before moving on in 1981 to earn her Masters Degree in Graphic Book Illustration and Design from the Surikov Institute in Moscow, Russia.
Thuraya Al-Baqsami received the Golden Palm Leaf award from the GCC Biennale in Riad in 1989 and in Doha in 1992. Her work on the book on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Liberte 98, was praised by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. She was awarded the First Prize of the Kuwait National Museum-Exhibition in 1987 and 1992.
The Kuwaiti embassy commissioned 2002 Thuraya Al-Baqsami to design and create the United Buddy Bear on behalf of her native country. The Exhibitions of the United Buddy Bears went to many metropolises on all five continents. Her work can be found in public and private collections throughout Asia, the Middle East and the United States as well as in Europe.
