Artist Shabnam Jannesari in front of a painting she is currently working on entitled “62 Sidney Street” at her studio space at the UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts in New Bedford. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

The Pandemic Surfaces New Cross-Cultural Themes For This Painter

Through self-portraits and portraits of the women she’s closest to, Shabnam Jannesari explores how the Iranian patriarchy censors women. But in the past year, she had to adjust her artistic...

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