Source: www.iranwire.com By SEAN NEVINS For Chilean muralist Nelson Rivas, also known as “Cekis,” painting mirrors his life’s journey. “The issues in the US have been affecting me,” he said, “I started experiencing things as an immigrant,…
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Building Bridges: Street Artist Keto Links West Africa and Iran
By Sean Nevins Among the bustle of afternoon traffic outside Public School #7 (PS7) in East Harlem, street artist Alexandre Keto from Sao Paulo, Brazil sat with his feet dangling from the railing where he was…
Rone’s Harlem Mural Exposes Education Apartheid in Iran
By Sean Nevins “Growing up as a Baha’i in Iran I always had that fear that anything can happen in a second,” says Nasim Biglari, a 29-year-old Baha’i from Tehran, Iran. “And that fear remained in…