Neda Abghari, is a curator, consultant and cultural advocate native to Atlanta. Over the last two decades she has leveraged her experience in the arts, education, non-profit and real estate sectors to connect, engage and inform communities through the cultivation of strategic partnerships locally and nationally. As an Iranian, born and raised in the deep South, it is her priority to create space for systematically marginalized artists, organizations and communities through her curatorial practice.

Neda is an Arts & Culture architect who builds exemplary cultural exhibitions, community based programs, and programmatic systems. Her deep roots and cross-sector relationships enable collaborations poised for proven impact and success. She has produced numerous exhibitions and cultural experiences showcasing the work of hundreds of artists while managing commissions with global brands like AFROPUNK music festival, HULU and SCOPE International Contemporary Arts Fair.

Neda’s art consultation services create memorable environments and experiences through the selection, placement, and programming of original art. Neda is one of the few private consultants across the nation to combine a vast experience in original art curation, creative direction and community development programming to animate authentic art spaces and projects. Her latest public art curations are on view throughout Midtown Atlanta commissioned by Midtown Alliance.

Neda is an avid arts and culture advocate. In 2011, Neda founded The Creatives Project (TCP), and established it as Atlanta’s first and only affordable housing program dedicated to Atlanta’s creative community. Currently, Abghari is the principal art advisor for Midtown Alliance’s Heart of the Arts Program. Through the creation of award winning artist-residency programs, Abghari has acquired and assigned over 350,000 sq/ft. of subsidized space to creatives in need of housing, studio and exhibition space. These subsidies, totaling over 3M in rental savings, have supported over 100 Atlanta artists and nonprofits through spacial accommodations.

As a founding board member of ACT/ART, she worked in partnership with The Obama White House to bring contemporary art to the forefront of public policy. She is Atlanta’s first Arts and Culture leader to be invited to participate in the prestigious Marshall Memorial Fellowship. Abghari currently serves as volunteer coach for the Urban Land Institute’s Art in Place program, Invest Atlanta’s Creative Industries Advisory Board, and the Fulton County Public Art Committee. She is a founding member of The Atlanta School for the Arts and has participated in multiple panels and lectures for Modern Atlanta, The Georgia Department of Education, High Museum of Art, Emory University, The Atlanta Regional Commission and The White House.

Neda is a mother, a wife and an unstoppable breast cancer survivor.