Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Ala Ebtekar
Tuesday, November 14, 6pm – 7pm
Fine Arts Building, Room 286
Admission: Free
Contact: School of Art, 415-338-6537, artgrad@sfsu.edu
ALA EBTEKAR
Ala Ebtekar is an artist, researcher and educator who works between his native San Francisco Bay Area and Tehran, Iran. Born in Berkeley to Iranian activist/artist parents, his work disquiets dominant notions of identity and complicates cultural difference.
Ebtekar teaches at Stanford University in the Art and Art History Department and Institute for Diversity in the Arts. He is the founder and director of Art, Social Space and Public Discourse, a three-year Stanford global initiative on art that investigates the multiple contexts that shift and define changing ideas of public space.
Ebtekar holds a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Presented by the School of Art and Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies.
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Image: Nowheresville ‘nä-koja,-abäd by Ala Ebtekar. 2015. The Third Line. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Courtesy of the artist.