Recent Press
StarTribune, "Life
Transformed," a feature story on Heroines project by
Kay Miller
Minnesota
Public Radio's Morning Edition: Cathy Wurzer interview with Jila
Nikpay
Minnesota
Public Radio's local broadcast of "All Things Considered:The
story about "Music for Heroines" by Kark Gehrke
Radiomnartists:
Marya Morstad interview with Jila Nikpay
Minnesota
Women's Press: An emotional landsacpe by Alison Bergblom Johnson
Twin Cities Noteables speak about Heroines
“I found the photographs and poetry deeply evocative and moving”
Penny George, psychologist and founder of George Family Foundation
“It's amazing that in a short poem you can experience that part of a
person's journey."
Carol Barnett, composer of Music for Heroines
“Some artists strive only to express themselves; Nikpay presents questions
about people discovering life's meaning.”
Kay Miller, writer, StarTribune newspaper
“Nikpay is known for confronting loss, isolation and dislocation in her
stylized photography and films, which have earned her McKnight and Jerome fellowships
and showings in galleries from the Walker Art Center to the Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Arts.”
George Slade, artistic director of the Minnesota Center for Photography.
"The project was an invitation not to hide what was happening, but the
opposite: to show people all the pieces of the illness. Not to put a wig on.
Not to put on a happy face." and "Cancer can close people down or
open them up. I was moving down the path of it closing me down until my session
with Jila. That day in front of the camera, I found that I didn't have any
fear."
Sarah Wovcha, book participant and Executive Director of Children’s
Dental Services
“Heroines could be a very powerful teaching tool for health professionals. Too
often, patients are seen as a diagnosis, the case down the hall, a complex
set of statistics – this book puts a face on the human experience of
being a woman diagnosed with a complex and frightening disease.” and “I
think the fall event will offer tremendous learning for our students and health
professionals in the community.”
Mary Jo Kreitzer, founder and director of the University's Center
for Spirituality and Healing
“listeners who have no experience with breast cancer will find meaning
in the music because it's simply about life.”
Janett Gottschell Fried Soprano/music educator at Augsburg College,
Minneapolis
“This is Jila's first-ever foray into publishing her photographs alongside
her own poetry. In Heroines she has found another voice, beyond her acclaimed
photography, by which to inspire and elevate a community dialogue on cancer.”
Marya
Morstad, broacast journalist,“Art Matters” a weekly
arts program on KFAI’s Fresh Air Community Radio.
“Nikpay wanted to portray women’s strength in a quiet, authentic
way. She feels that pink ribbon campaigns commercialize breast cancer and infantilize
women, particularly when they use products such as pink teddy bears or pink
ribbons.”
Alison Bergblom Johnson, writer, Women’s Press
"You almost can't say no to her because she's coming from this
deep, passionate place."
Cass McLaughlin, the Center for Spirituality and Healing outreach
coordinator.
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