Safiyah Cheatam (she/her) is a visual artist, researcher, storyteller, arts educator and afrofuturist based in Baltimore, MD.

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    safiyahcheatam
    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 6 min

    On Afrofuturism and My Upcoming NMAAHC Internship

    I recently received and accepted an internship to work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The...
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    A Black Space
    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 24, 2019
    • 4 min

    A Black Space

    Originally written 14 March 2017 A brief history of Afrofuturism and how its ties deem Radcliffe Bailey’s installation Windward Coast...
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    Golden Record: Take Two
    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Golden Record: Take Two

    Suldano Abdiruhman is a Somali-American, Philadelphia-based design and textile artist. As the great-granddaughter of weavers and artists,...
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    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Spring '19 Artist Statement

    Grounding myself as a conceptual installation artist, I have pushed myself to create more site-specific works. Last summer, I began...
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    safiyahcheatam
    • May 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Fall '18 Artist Statement

    If I were to exhibit my most recent body of work, it would fall comfortably into the title Instances of Behavioral Dissonance. Using the...
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    T-7 days until Grad Review Day
    safiyahcheatam
    • Dec 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    T-7 days until Grad Review Day

    Been a while! I've been pretty busy letting my life spiral, but I plan to go out with a bang. With my first GRD approaching (critique by...
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    safiyahcheatam
    • Oct 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    Thoughts on John Berger's Why Look at Animals? (2009)

    For one, the conclusion of Chapter 1 made me sad to be an inside-pet owner, keeping my pet from enjoying the freedom of outside; albeit...
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    safiyahcheatam
    • Oct 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    Thoughts on Time, Memory, and Reality

    It's been a busy couple of weeks for me, in which I completed my first presentation and academic paper of my grad school career;...
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    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 17, 2018
    • 3 min

    Thoughts on Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Seeing The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction listed as a reading provided me a little relief after last week’s readings....
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    Thoughts on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas”
    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    Thoughts on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas”

    I can't tell if this reading was more conveniently timely or just timeless. Here are my correlations with current societal happenings: ...
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    Thoughts on David Batchelor's "Chromophobia" (2000)
    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    Thoughts on David Batchelor's "Chromophobia" (2000)

    This is an interesting text because most of it infuriates me, but I agree with a good bit of it in that it makes logical points in the...
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    Thoughts on "Order"
    safiyahcheatam
    • Sep 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    Thoughts on "Order"

    For the past month I’ve been thinking around thoughts of order in relation to nature and organized religion. I’ve been able to draw a lot...
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