#Taravat

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Passing this along for your consideration.  “Another liberal arts college is in the news this week after a handful of Muslim students claimed offense at an on-campus art exhibition by Iranian-American feminist artist Taravat Talepasand. The exhibition, which stands in support of the Women Life Freedom movement in Iran — a movement spurred by Iranian feminists in direct opposition to mandatory hijab laws and the morality police — explicitly defends the rights of women and challenges misogynist cultural and religious demands. A biographical statement about the artist and her exhibit states: “As an Iranian American woman, Talepasand explores the cultural taboos that reflect on gender and political authority.” Some students were apparently shocked, hurt, and offended that an exhibition promising to challenge cultural taboos around gender and political authority indeed challenged cultural taboos around gender and political authority.“ ... “...the Macalester students who want this work censored don’t use the language of religious fundamentalism or blasphemy — although that is what they are, and that is what they are objecting to — but rather the language of social justice, therapy, and DEI initiatives. “ ... “... liberals and progressives do no one — ourselves included — any favors when we ignore the fundamentalists, misogynists, and censors who use the language of social justice to make all of our worlds smaller. “

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Taravat Talepasand

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Taravat Carmela Habibi

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The Agony of Hamline and Macalester

“Art need not defer to religion. If that’s no longer obvious we’ve gone astray.”(Michelle Goldberg) (Michelle Goldberg, “A Left-Leaning College Didn’t Want to Offend, So It Closed Down Her Art Show,” New York Times, 2-13-23) The story of what befell the work of Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand at Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota) is as disheartening as what transpired several…

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Desert Storm, 2016 Taravat Talepasand

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Friend and collaborator, TVAT.

Styled by Tasha Green

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NEW WORK. San Francisco artist Taravat Talepasand brings us into her studio and artistic practice for Bay Area Now 8, YBCA's eighth triennial of Bay Area contemporary art.

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 Blasphemy: Tagged, 2016. By Taravat Talepasand.

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Taravat Talespasand

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At SFAI, faculty and staff members are artists too! Faculty and staff shows are a great way for students to connect with the wider community of SFAI-affiliated artists across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of what SFAI faculty and staff are up to this month:

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA:

Johnna Arnold — Faculty | Photography See Johnna Arnold’s work in her solo exhibition at Sarah Shepard Gallery in Larkspur, CA, entitled From Inside This Earth, on view through June 1.

Clark Buckner — Faculty | Liberal Arts Check out Clark Buckner’s curatorial work at Telematic in If AI Were Cephalopod, featuring 0rphan Drift (Ranu Mukherjee and Maggie Roberts), on view through June 8.

Charles Hobson — Professor Emeritus | Printmaking See Charles Hobson’s work at the Legion of Honor in Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson, on view through July 14.

Frances McCormack — Professor Emeritus | Painting See Frances McCormack’s work in the group exhibition Sonoma Modern | Contemporary, on view through June 16 at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.

Kal Spelletich — Faculty | Sculpture/Ceramics Book an appointment to see Kal Spelletich’s work in Molecular Vibrations of the Radiant Body, on view through May 31 at the Recology SF Transfer Station.

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty + Interim Painting Department Chair | Painting See Taravat Talepasand’s work in the group exhibition EPOCH, on view through May 31 at Gallery 16.

Lindsey White — Faculty + Photography Department Chair | Photography On view at Casemore Kirkeby through May 26, see Lindsey White’s work in the group exhibition Handless Operative.

Wanxin Zhang — Faculty | Sculpture/Ceramics See Wanxin Zhang’s work at the Museum of Craft and Design in Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey through July 14.

CHICAGO, IL:

Maria Elena González — Faculty + Sculpture/Ceramics Department Chair | Sculpture/Ceramics/New Genres If you’re in Chicago, see Maria Elena González’s work in the group exhibition About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art, on view through July 20 at Wrightwood 659.

OTHER FUN STUFF:

Miah Jeffra — Faculty | Liberal Arts Get your copy of Foglifter—a magazine co-founded by Miah Jeffra and nominated for the Outstanding Literary LGBTQ Anthology at the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony.

Danielle Lawrence — Faculty | Painting + Drawing Congratulations to Danielle Lawrence, who was selected for the 2019 Golden Foundation Artists in Residence Program in New Berlin, NY.

IMAGE CREDITS:

(1) Taravat Talepasand, White Div I, II, III (installation view), 2019; featured in the exhibition EPOCH, Gallery 16, San Francisco.

(2) Lindsey White, Man Plow, 2019, Archival pigment; featured in the exhibition Handless Operative at Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco.

(3) Danielle Lawrence, Crossdresser (Herstory), 2017, Oil, chalk, paint, and paper clay on canvas. © Danielle Lawrence.

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“Inspired by a mutual love and respect for each other’s work, practice and careers, Epoch presents the work of these artists in dialogue together for the first time.” Now at @gallery16 including work by Libby Black @libblack, Taravat Talepasand @artistvat, and Josephine Taylor @josephinetaylorstudio! (at Gallery 16) https://www.instagram.com/sfartenthusiast/p/Bv-EIQKAeg3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m5asspx79cb0

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We collaborated with Taravat Talepasand (@artistvat) to print her Islamic Youth T-shirt. While this shirt is no longer available on our website, you can head over to Taravat's to get one (link in profile)! Despite ongoing government censorship in Iran and accusations of “Westoxication,” an underground music scene continues to flourish in Iran and its neighboring Muslim countries. With this shirt Talepasand appropriates the 1990 Sonic Youth album “Goo,” changing the two original male characters to two women in chadors; one smoking with the other arm around her neck. Recalling youthful rebellion and a personal history of smuggling band shirts from the U.S. to family and friends in Iran, Talepasand’s clothing line repositions Islamic culture within the context of rock and roll and the awareness of youths within Islamic communities that welcome Western cultures. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7gpE2NHsDr/?igshid=r2kusk8u071g

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Taravat Carmela Habibi

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Taravat Talepasand, Ceci est une pipe, 2015, Egg tempera on linen

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This week on REORIENT - Joobin Bekhrad catches up with Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand (a.k.a. 'TVAT') to discuss her new work, as well as all things Sex, Drugs, and Gol-o-Bolbol™.

Read the interview in full on REORIENT