Neda Moridpour

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Neda Moridpour is an artist, educator and organizer who is the co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, Louder Than Words[1] (with S.A. Bachman[2]) and [P]Art Collective[3] (with Pouya Afshar.[4])

LOUDER THAN WORDS[5] (S.A. Bachman+Neda Moridpour)

Moridpour's work investigates cycles of violence that leads to dislocation, gender and racial inequity while establishing dialogue and attempting to mobilize communities.

"Louder Than Words" received the 2014 Women's Caucus for Art International Honor Roll award. [P]Art Collective won the 1st prize in the Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran and China and is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and was recently exhibited in the Islamic Art Now II: Contemporary Art of the Middle East at the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA.)[citation needed]

Moridpour  holds an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design[citation needed]

Career[]

  • Professor of the Practice, Media Arts Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, 2018–present[citation needed]
  • Visiting Full Time Faculty, Print, Paper and Graphic Arts Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University 2015-2018[citation needed]
  • Part Time Faculty, Department of Art and Design, UMASS Lowell, MA, USA, 2015[citation needed]

Honors and awards[]

For Freedoms Town Hall: #MeToo and Substantive Structural Change
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell Artist Merit Award, Lowell, MA, 2016
  • Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists Grant in Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
  • Women's Caucus for Art International Honor Roll, 2014
  • Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival First Prize Winner, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2013
  • Noor Film Festival Best Animated Film Candidate, Los Angeles 2013
  • Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival Second Prize Winner, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2012
  • The Watercolor Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2008
  • The Arbitration Children Photo Festival; Mirror Spirituality, Tehran, Iran, 2008

Bibliography[]

  • , "A Taco Truck On Every Corner And Now This," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, June 15, 2017[6]
  • Truthout Magazine, "Homeland Insecurity: Jews and Muslims United Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, May 17, 2017[7]
  • Woman's Building / Quetzal Gets Down / LOUDER THAN WORDS, Radio Interview with Neda Moridpour and S.A. Bachman about WOMEN ON THE MOVE, Feminist Magazine, KPFK Radio, May 2, 2017,
  • Ms. Magazine Blog, "Grab This, Donald," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, May 1, 2017[8]
  • Counterpunch Online Magazine, "Women on the Move: Can Three Women and a Truck Quell the Tide of Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse?," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, April 17, 2017[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "LOUDER THAN WORDS | Art and Activism". louder-than-words. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  2. ^ "HOME S.A. Bachman". sabachman. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  3. ^ "[P]Art Collective". partcollective. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  4. ^ "Pouya Afshar artist". pouya-afshar. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  5. ^ "LOUDER THAN WORDS | Art and Activism". louder-than-words. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  6. ^ Advocate (2017-06-15). "A Taco Truck on Every Corner, and Now This". The Advocate. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  7. ^ Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra. "Homeland Insecurity: Jews and Muslims United Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault". Truthout. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  8. ^ "FM May 2: Woman's Building / LouderThanWords - Feminist Magazine". Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  9. ^ "Women on the Move: Can Three Women and a Truck Quell the Tide of Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse?". CounterPunch.org. Retrieved 2019-06-17.

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