Artist and Wildlife Rehabilitator, Sheida Soleimani, Featured in T Magazine
Sheida Solemani in her home studio. Photo Brian Ulrich
Sheida Soleimani’s (Photography ’15) artistic practice and her work as a wildlife rehabilitator were recently featured in T Magazine. Soleimani’s art practice is centered on the use of collage to obfuscate and confuse viewers, inviting them to deconstruct and unravel meaning within the work.
Soleimani runs a wildlife rehabilitation center out of her home, specializing in birds. Residents of the Providence, RI community can deliver injured, malnourished, or otherwise struggling avians to her backstep.
Soleimani’s recent “Ghostwriter” project intends to work out connections between her two care-taking practices, both as an artist and rehabilitator. The series marks the first time Soleimani’s work features both her Iranian parents’ personal histories as healthcare professionals,pro-democracy activists in Iran, and political refugees who settled in Ohio.
