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Ebru UYGUN

Ebru UYGUN (Educator)

Ebru Uygun was born in 1971, İstanbul. She finished Austrian High School and then graduated from the department of Marketing-Economy, Webster University in Switzerland. She was a volunteer for two years at Christian Children Foundation in Switzerland. During this period she decided to establish a foundation in Turkey. When she returned Turkey, she worked asfor accounting manager assistant in İpaş, a textile company. Ebru Uygun established TOÇEV in 1994. She has been managing the TOÇEV foundation since 1994. TOÇEV, contributes to raise a cultivated, well-educated, generation for the future of Turkey, to give material and moral support to children who want to be educated during all their school life, but who are deprived of education due to the economic insufficiency of their family and who are obliged to work to earn their living, to support them to be harmonic and creative people in our social life. She is a member of the board Elpa Textile Company, vice-charman of Artists Supporters Foundation, vice-charman of FMF Foundation, chairman of  the 100 year ISIL Education Foundation. She has written four books named; “Room with the number 102 (2005)”, “The Hearts that I Touch (2006)”, “Growing Together (2009)”, River of Hearts (2013). “The Hearts that I Touch” was taken by the Ministry of National Education and it was given out in the primary schools.

Ebru Uygun has been making Ottoman Art of “ebru” paintings and exhibited her works of the following exhibitions until today:

“Mixed Exhibition” organized by Artists Supporters Foundation

“Exhibition to help Somalia” organized by Silivri Rotary Club and Artists Supporters Foundation

“Mixed Exhibition” in USA and Barcelona.

“Hand in Hand With Art Exhibition” organized by TOÇEV and Artists Supporters Foundation And her solo exhibitions which are named “I Touched” (2012 İstanbul), “EBRUca” (2013 İstanbul), “EBRUca Bodrum” (2013 Bodrum), “EBRUca Bahrinn” (2013 Bahrinn), “EBRUca Breath” (2015 İstanbul) and “EBRUca Bodrum 2015 (2015 Bodrum).

She speaks English, German and French. She has got twin children.