Please join us for the 2020-2021 KSMoCA Artist Lecture Series, which is open to members of the public and students at Dr. MLK Jr School and their families. The lecture will take place via YouTube livestream (click here to join). Soheila Azadi is currently an Artist-In-Residence at KSMoCA.

Presentations will be recorded and made available on our website as an ongoing resource for students, teachers, and members of the public.

Soheila Azadi is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, educator, and a mother based in Portland, OR and Iran. Born in the capital of Islamic cities, Esfahan, Azadi absorbed story-telling skills through Persian miniature drawings and Islamic architecture since she was nine. Azadi’s inspirations come from her experiences of being a woman of color living under Theocracy and Democracy. Now residing in the U.S. Azadi is dedicated to Transnational Feminism with a passionate devotion to the ways in which gender, sex, race, culture and religion intersect. Azadi uses different media to both investigate, materialize, contextualize, and narrate stories of women as minorities. Her use of fabric in her works is deployed critically and sensually to amplify customs that serve to classify, separate, oppress, and potentially / unknowingly liberates those obfuscated by such a tradition.