PBS Premieres Short Documentary on Alum Maryam Taghavi

PBS premiered Maryam Taghavi: Estranged Letters on November 6, 2025, a short documentary exploring the Iranian-American artist’s path toward her first major solo exhibition. The film follows alum Maryam Taghavi (MFA 2017) as she reflects on how abstraction, perspective, and Islamic culture inform her practice, offering a window into her evolving visual language and cultural identity. Through intimate interviews and studio footage, Estranged Letters captures Taghavi’s effort to bridge personal and collective narratives, situating her work within both contemporary art and diasporic experience.