safiyahcheatamDec 19, 20196 minOn Afrofuturism and My Upcoming NMAAHC InternshipI recently received and accepted an internship to work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The position, beginning ...
safiyahcheatamSep 6, 20192 minSpring '19 Artist StatementGrounding myself as a conceptual installation artist, I have pushed myself to create more site-specific works. Last summer, I began creating word maps based ...
safiyahcheatamMay 17, 20192 minFall '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 phrase “cognitive di...
safiyahcheatamOct 13, 20183 minThoughts 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 for good personal rea...
safiyahcheatamOct 10, 20182 minThoughts on Time, Memory, and RealityIt's been a busy couple of weeks for me, in which I completed my first presentation and academic paper of my grad school career; Thankfully on a topic I am v...
safiyahcheatamSep 17, 20183 minThoughts 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. I first read it as a...
safiyahcheatamSep 10, 20183 minThoughts on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas”