Art Beat Podcast

Host Kinte K. Fergerson Guests: Amitis Motevalli Web Address: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/artbeat Live Listener call in #: (909) 362-8242 Amitis Motevalli Director of The William Grant Still Arts Center Amitis Motevalli was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the US in 1977. In 1995 she received a BA from SFSU in Art with a minor in Women's studies and in 1998 an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Her work as an artist incorporates a combination of near-eastern aesthetic with a western art education. Motevalli states, "Being an immigrant in the US shows in my work cultural plurality, natural and learned. In all of my work, I create a dialogue that presents alternatives to dominant canons in research and reflection of the present as well as history". Amitis Motevalli is a recent recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation Artistic Innovation Award, the California Community Foundation Fellowship and the Visions of California Award, a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship and the NEA/Warhol Foundation artis