Professor Shiva Ahmadi has received a Career Achievement Award in Art, Art History, and Design from Wayne State University. The award is granted by the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts to celebrate outstanding alumni career achievements. 

In 2003, Ahmadi received an M.F.A. in Drawing from Wayne State University, a few years after her family immigrated from Iran to the United States. Wayne State was the first school she attended as a new immigrant and had a profound impact on her life and artistic career. 

“If it wasn’t for Wayne State and Detroit, the culture, the education, the people, the professors, I don’t think I could have survived,” Ahmadi said. 

Wayne State University’s College of Fine, Performing and Communications Arts’ Department of Art, Art History, and Design produced a video celebrating Ahmadi’s achievement. View video here. 

For more about Ahmadi’s achievement, visiting Wayne State’s webpage.

Ahmadi has been a member of the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis since 2015.