Organize a “Drawn In”
Find a museum in your region that houses Iraqi art (either ancient Mesopotamian or Islamic). Visit that museum to “scope it out” with a working group, and decide where the action could take place.
Inquire about their regulations vis-a-vis artmaking (are permissions required for classes? are there limits on the materials that can be employed? is photography allowed? etc.) Do not violate any of the rules, but do not ask their permission. You are doing what artists are encouraged to do in museums all over the world!
Choose a date when members of your art community might be available and send out a “call” over the Internet, reaching as many people as you possibly can. Ask the recipients of your e-mails to send it to their e-mail lists. Invite everyone to come on the designated day, and request that they be quiet and respectful of the museum, its staff, and other members of the public.
Apprise the press and media in your area that this is happening, and encourage them to attend too. Be very clear as to the political reasons why you have created this action in your initial statement, but don’t distribute any literature at the actual event. The presence of many artists paying homage to the great art of the Near East is sufficient and powerful.