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I IAAB* Art I Bam Seminar I Project Connection I IAAB Javan! I Leadership Camp I Conference 2005 I Conference 2004 I
IAAB* Art IAAB*Art is organizing an exhibition on contemporary art inside and outside Iran Goals: This exhibition will:
Exhibition Audience:
Programming: Such programming might include:
Selection Process: IAAB*Art’s Curatorial Committee will select artists and works via a Call for Art which will be available soon. IAAB*Art will invite certain artists to submit their work but will not select any art until the Call process is complete.
Contact Us: For any questions regarding this project, please contact us at: art@iranianalliances.org
Exhibition Curators: Narges Bajoghli received the 2005 Susan Knafel Fellowship to study at the University of Tehran. Having spent the last year in Iran, Ms. Bajoghli brings to the exhibition her extensive cross-cultural and international consulting experience, along with her wide-ranging contacts with Iranian artists, academics, gallery directors, and museum leaders. Ms. Bajoghli has a B.A. in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. She has organized three Iranian film festivals in London and Boston. Ms. Bajoghli also made it possible for photography exhibitions to travel to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Ms. Bajoghli has worked with filmmakers, visual artists, and musicians in the US, UK and Iran. With Ms. Paydar, Ms. Bajoghli organized exhibitions in Boston (2004) and Washington D.C. (2005) for IAAB's first two International Conferences on the Iranian Diaspora. Ms. Bajoghli, along with Ms. Paydar, is the founder and Executive Director of IAAB. Amy Malek was recently awarded an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University. Ms. Malek's Master's thesis dealt with Iranian exile culture, focusing on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and other Iranian women's memoirs in diaspora. Ms. Malek brings to the exhibition her ability to look critically at Iranian visual and literary expressions. At NYU, Ms. Malek studied with Shiva Balaghi and organized extensive cultural programming for the New York public. She also holds a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and International Studies, with a minor in Persian Language and Literature from Emory University.
Maryam Ovissi received her Master in Art's Management from Boston University. Her career in the arts began in 1994 with the position of Special Project Researcher for a collection of +10,000 slides bequeathed to the Arthur S. Sackler/Freer Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institute. In 1996, Maryam founded Evolving Perceptions, the first organization in the United States to create annual exhibition opportunity for Iranian-American artists. Today, Evolving Perceptions, continues to support artists of diverse cultural backgrounds and also offers the only annual scholarship to Iranian-American young emerging artists in the United States. In 1992, with the major support of Chevron, Evolving Perceptions was organized the first exhibition of contemporary Iranian art to travel to the United States from Iran through a collaborative effort with Aria, Nour and Vali art galleries of Tehran, Iran. Maryam opened Gallery Ovissi in Emeryville, California (1998 – 2001) which was dedicated to exhibiting the works of professional Iranian and Arab contemporary artists. Maryam has also been organizing an annual juried exhibition of Young Artists with disabilities for Volkswagen of America, Inc. and VSA arts for the past four years that has debuted at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institute. Maryam Ovissi has presented papers on contemporary Iranian art and has articles featured in Eastern Art Report (UK), Bidoun (NYC), IranToday (CA) and www.iranian.com. She also has been featured on television programs on Voice of America, BBC and on Accent by Zohreh Rastegar (DC).
Nikoo Paydar is Gallery Director of John Landrum Bryant Gallery in New York City, and has a particular interest in contemporary non-Western art. She received a B.A. in Art History from Tufts University, where she was awarded a Citizenship and Public Service Scholar grant to travel in Iran and produce a photographic essay on Iranian lifestyle and culture. Ms. Paydar curated exhibits of her photos from this trip in Boston (2002) and London (2003). She participated in a group show at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2004. Ms. Paydar was a Coordinator at the Tufts University Gallery, Boston, for three years. She helped curate and install an exhibit of local artists at the Memphis, TN, County Mayor's Office, and has served as a consultant on other exhibits. With Ms. Bajoghli, Ms. Paydar organized exhibitions in Boston 2004 and Washington D.C. 2005 for IAAB's first two International Conferences on the Iranian Diaspora. Ms. Paydar, along with Ms. Bajoghli, is the founder and Executive Director of IAAB.
Leyla Pope was awarded an M.A. in Film and Anthropology of the Middle East by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her Master's thesis focused on representation issues in films, looking in depth at women in Iranian cinema. After the 2004 IAAB conference, Ms. Pope was inspired by the universal voice of the art, music and film and the way it moved the audience and transcended language and cultural barriers. Based on this, she proposed to IAAB an exhibition of Iranian contemporary artists from around the world and continues to be a driving force in this project. Ms. Pope has produced and directed two documentaries that were shown at the Best of British Islam Festival in London (2002) and the Bangor Mountain Film Festival (2003). She is also a designer, who has been featured in Intra Magazine (2003) and has worked on independent films on architecture, design and the arts. Ms. Pope holds a B.A. from Cambridge University in Persian and French Literature. She lived in Iran for one year, conducting research on conflicting portrayals of women in Iran. During that time she organized a high-profile joint expedition of British and Iranian women to climb Alam Kuh.
Programming Coordinator: Taraneh Matin is a third year student at Wellesley College, majoring in International Relations with a focus on the Middle East. She has served as the President of the Wellesley Persian Students' Association, and has spent time in Iran interning for various NGOs and traveling the country. Ms. Matin held the position of Director of Cultural Events for IAAB in 2005 and has organized art, music, lecture and film events in the Washington D.C. and Boston areas.
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