Learn to write your name in Farsi, Nina Ghanbarzadeh’s mother tongue, using stencils and other art supplies. Start with a two-dimensional version, writing right to left, then experiment, as Ghanbarzadeh does in her exhibition, with three dimensions. Her work is on view at the Haggerty from June 12 through August 2 in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024.

Nina Ghanbarzadeh transplanted from Tehran, Iran, in 2001. She holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing and Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and completed a two-year artist residency at Redline Milwaukee in 2015. Ghanbarzadeh has been involved in many exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and presentations. She received the 1st Place award at the Wisconsin Artists Biennial in 2020, and she was chosen by Professional Dimensions as the 2025 Imprint Award Artist.