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...
safiyahcheatamSep 24, 20194 minA Black SpaceOriginally written 14 March 2017 A brief history of Afrofuturism and how its ties deem Radcliffe Bailey’s installation Windward Coast...
safiyahcheatamSep 15, 20192 minGolden Record: Take TwoSuldano Abdiruhman is a Somali-American, Philadelphia-based design and textile artist. As the great-granddaughter of weavers and artists,...
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...
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...
safiyahcheatamDec 5, 20182 minT-7 days until Grad Review DayBeen 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...
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...
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;...
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....
safiyahcheatamSep 10, 20183 minThoughts 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: ...
safiyahcheatamSep 6, 20182 minThoughts 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...
safiyahcheatamSep 6, 20182 minThoughts 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...