West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Niku Kashef, MFA, CMT-P, is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator working across studio art, relational practices, site-specific installation, participatory projects, public speaking, mindfulness facilitation, and advocacy. Her work examines geography, biography, and place--both as physical location and our perceived relationship to home/site. Informed by personal experience, her scholarship addresses identity, scientific inquiry, collective memory, and care through community-building via shared experiences: healing, loss, motherhood, displacement, environment, sacred practices, and the ephemeral. Kashef has exhibited, lectured and worked with National and International organizations. With over twenty years producing arts programming, she is emeritus Executive Board Director for the College Art, past-chair of the College Art Association's Services for Artists Committee, past-President and Advisory Council member for the Southern California Women's Caucus for Art and emeritus Board member for the National Women's Caucus for Art. Niku is Faculty member in the Department of Art at California State University, Northridge and has curated for organizations including the United States National Committee for United Nations Women in Los Angeles, where she lives and works.