LOUDER THAN WORDS ART AND ACTIVISM
S.A. Bachman
Neda Moridpour
S.A. BACHMAN is a socially engaged artist, activist and educator. She is the co-founder of two artist collaboratives, LOUDER THAN WORDS (with Neda Moridpour) and THINK AGAIN (with David John Attyah). Bachman recruits art in the service of public address while examining the ways that capitalism, white supremacy, and misogyny conspire to jeopardize women, non-human animals, and the disenfranchised.
Working at the intersection of art and social justice, her socio-political critiques employ appropriated images to explore how the mass media constructs our conceptions of race, class, gender, conformity, and democracy. Bachman’s recent work addresses structural violence against women, animal liberation, economic inequality, undocumented labor, queer liberation, and prison abolition. Her interdisciplinary practice utilizes photomontage, mobile billboards, outdoor projection, moving image, and offset printing.
Bachman has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Her photographs and interventionist projects have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston and Philadelphia), the Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Rose Art Museum and the Alternative Museum. Bachman’s work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Palacio de Bellas Artes Ciudad de México and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. It has been reviewed in Artforum, Ms. and Social Text. Her political posters and photographs are published in Reframings: New American Feminist Photograph- ies and Graphic Agitation 2. The early projects of THINK AGAIN are documented in the monograph, A Brief History of Outrage.
Bachman has created artwork in conjunction with a range of collaborators including VINE Sanctuary, Beagle Freedom Pro-ject, United for a Fair Economy, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Peace Over Violence, The Theater Offensive, and A Window Between Worlds.
She was a Professor of Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University from 1991-2010 and has also taught at Harvard University, Otis College of Art and Design, and Germantown Friends School.
Neda Moridpour is a cultural futurist, artist, and organizer whose research investigates cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and systemic inequities. Through community-based participatory research methodologies and socially engaged art projects, they create collaborative spaces that center mutual care, community building, and the visualization of future world-building. Their teaching, organizing, and art-making intersect through lens-based practices, public interventions, and digital-physical platforms that transform everyday experiences into acts of speculative resistance and solidarity.
Moridpour is the co-founder of three artist-activist collectives: LOUDER THAN WORDS, recipient of the Women’s Caucus for Art International Honor Roll Award and recognized by the Mayor of Los Angeles; [P]Art Collective, whose animation LA DOLCE VITA was officially selected for the Buffalo and Burbank International Film Festivals; and the Hamdel Futurist Collaborative, recipient of the 2025 MacDowell Fellowship. Their work has been exhibited internationally in the U.S., Iran, and China, and is held in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Printed Matter, JUSTSEEDS, Palestine Poster Project, Art Against Apartheid, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
They continue their research and education as a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctorate Program at Tufts University, while teaching as Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tisch College of Civic Life. Moridpour is a 2025 Royal Shakespeare Company Interdisciplinary Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and a 2025 ONASSIS ONX Fellow. Other achievements include the 2025 Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency, the 2025 Un-monument: Temporary Monument Award from Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, the 2025 Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, and the 2025 MacDowell Fellowship. At Tufts University, they received the 2025 Tisch College Community Research Center (TCRC) grant, the 2025 Universal Design for Learning Fellowship, the 2023 MacJannet Artist Residency, the 2018 Tisch Faculty Fellowship, and the 2024 MUSE Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, among others.