Artist, Advocate, Business Owner

Yasamin Safarzadeh is an Angelino, Iranian American and transplant to New England. She celebrates the intersections of identities and strives to create spaces where an individual's sense of self can be discovered both ethically and intentionally. She has her BFA, MFA and MBA specifically addressing arts enrichment as a tool to rehabilitate neighborhoods, enhance participant stability and bolster local economies. Her art often encompasses the multifaceted intersections of a people’s who-ness; coloring lived experiences in absurd renderings, magical realism and sentimental passages nurturing new life to the materials utilized. Yasamin has worked in the field as an arts enrichment facilitator for seventeen years through different nonprofits in California, New Hampshire, Malawi, Spain and Belize including The Armory, BFREE, Jacaranda, The Currier, Kimball Jenkins, Canterbury English, Sacramento Poetry Center and OTIS College of Art and Design. She has been head Curator since 2022 for Kimball Jenkins and Positive Street Art which has two galleries in Manchester and Nashua. Yasamin is also a writer for various news media outlets and publication firms including Yankee Publishing and Manchester InkLink.