educator
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and organizer who is the co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, Louder Than Words (with S.A. Bachman) and rt Collective (with Pouya Afshar.)
Moridpour's work investigates
cycles of violence
The term cycle of violence refers to repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern,rt 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 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum).
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, 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.)
Moridpour holds an MFA in Public Practice from
Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California, United States. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aero ...
Career
* Professor of the Practice, Media Arts Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, 2018–presenthttps://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/neda-moridpour, accessed=14 February 2024
* Visiting Full-Time Faculty, Print, Paper and Graphic Arts Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University 2015-2018
* Part-Time Faculty, Department of Art and Design, UMASS Lowell, MA, USA, 2015