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Soude Dadras

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Degree Seeking
PhD
Area of Study
Art Education
Email
Soude.dadras@uga.edu
Undergraduate Degree
BA in Perisan Rugs
Masters Institution
Georgia State University
Masters Degree
MFA in Studio Arts
Research Detail
Dadras cherishes the history of each item in her work and allows the materials to directly influence and guide her creative process. Her art is inherently participatory, from the people who donate materials to the audiences who interact with her finished creations. Dadras is enchanted by the language of art and its ability to transcend traditional communication. This language is founded in each item's history and in the emotional response her participants experience witnessing the material's transformation.
Biography

Soude Dadras is a citizen of the world, having lived and traveled all over the globe. Her art is born from her fascination with the transformative properties of language. She uses this passion to show how discarded materials can be given new life. This exhibit is a transfiguration of unwanted materials into textiles that communicate the way data and information are part of our everyday lives, whether we realize it or not.

She has been the CEO and curator of the Ongoing Conversation for the past five years. Ongoing Conversation is a platform for showcasing artists from different backgrounds in venues around the world. Ongoing Conversation's mission is "to bring together disparate voices in the visual arts through an international purview in order to examine cross-cultural similarities of the human condition" She curated international exhibitions that took place in prestigious venues in Japan, Turkey, Iran, Belarus, and the United States.

She is currently a Ph.D. Student in Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States.

Feb 03, 2025
Image from previous Art & Education Social Justice symposium at Cine in Athens, Georgia. Photo courtesy of Lauren Copelan.

Art Education co-presents 2025 Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium with the UGA School of Social Work

Gallery

  • Soude Dadras, Material Intelligence, May 2021, Gallery 130, shredded documents and tule fabric, site-specific installation
  • Soude Dadras, Material Intelligence, September 2022, NCCA, Belarus, shredded documents and tule fabric, site-specific installation
  • Soude Dadras, Material Intelligence, June 2023, Fulton County Future Lab, shredded documents and tule fabric, site-specific installation
  • Soude Dadras, Material Intelligence, June 2023, Underground Atlanta, shredded documents and tule fabric, site-specific installation

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