2:00–3:30pm
Matfield Community Church
Matfield Green, KS

Join Tallgrass artist-in-residence, Maryam Ghasempour Siahgaldeh for an artist talk and cyanotype workshop in Matfield Green, Kansas. Maryam will share about her photographic journey that explores themes of migration, memory, displacement, and the search for belonging. Through documentary photography, personal archives, and experimental processes, her work reflects on how images can preserve stories, connect generations, and create bridges between the past and present. Following the talk, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a cyanotype workshop, where they will explore the relationship between photography, memory, and material transformation using this historic photographic process.

**Please note that Highway K-177 is closed for construction between Council Grove & Strong City. Check detour routes and travel times.

Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh (b. 1994) is an Iranian artist and researcher working with documentary and conceptual photography. She is currently an MFA candidate in Photography at Kansas State University. Before moving to the United States, her work focused on northern Iran, where she documented intimate moments from everyday life, with particular attention to older women and men living under the Islamic regime, as well as broader social justice issues, including women’s rights and child labor.