Fall 2019 Fellow
Fellow: Nisã

ABOUT

Nisã (New York imagined sisterhood for ãrts) aspires to be a mobile education and collaboration platform of visual art, performance, theatre and creative writing for Muslim women-identified participants and educators that travel in the five boroughs of NYC.

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ARTIST BIOs

Farideh Sakhaeifar is a multidisciplinary Brooklyn-based artist and educator. She received her MFA from Cornell University in 2011 and her BFA from Azad Art and Architecture University in Iran (2008). Sakhaeifar was an artist in residence at Queens Museum Studio Program(2018), Residency Unlimited (2017), BRIC media fellowship (2017), and Workspace Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) (2012-13). Sakhaeifar’s work has been shown nationally and internationally and has been widely covered including in ArtFuse, The Guardian and Hyperallergic.

Sadra Shahab is a GIS specialist and urban planner at Pratt Center for Community Development. He is the creator of Neighborhood Data Portal, a free online GIS platform which provides the public with key demographic, socio-economic, housing, and other vital neighborhood information to assist community-based organizations and community organizers in their efforts. Sadra provides GIS analysis and planning support to Pratt Center’s community planning and economic development projects and is an adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute teaching GIS and urban planning/historic preservation studios to Pratt’s graduate students. He is also a co-author of “Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space” edited by Ron Shiffman and published by New Village Press. 

Shadi Ghaheri is a director and choreographer from Tehran, Iran based in New York. She has directed Untitled (Rattlestick Theatre), Fen (Columbia University), Lucretia (HERE), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Williams College), Shahr-e-Farang (Spectrum NYC) Death of Yazdgerd, and Titus Andronicus (Yale School of Drama). Other Credits, The Slow Sound of Snow (Yale Cabaret). She co-curated a four-play season, directing The Trojan Women, and Lear (Yale Summer Cabaret). Also she co-curated and produced a six-day festival of theatre, music and short film called Emruz Festival. Shadi was a 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, the 2017-2018 directing fellow at Rattlestick Playwright Theatre and the winner of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase 2019.