On Black history and Black futures with Safiyah Cheatam
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On Black history and Black futures with Safiyah Cheatam
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About this listen
Griotte’s Beat continues exploring Black histories, this week with artist Safiyah Cheatam. Safiyah and host Kaytura discuss how her work draws Black Muslim histories and Afrofuturism to address contemporary injustice.
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More about Safiyah Cheateam
Baltimore-based conceptual and social practice artist, Safiyah Cheatam is best known for her interactive photo installations portraying the duality of Black Muslim experiences using augmented reality and her co-produced, awards-nominated Afrofuturist narrative podcast OBSIDIAN featured in The Washington Post. Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ data visualizations and resonating with Martine Syms’ The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto (2013), Safiyah has sought to illuminate real-life stories of Black uplift in the U.S. to show Afrofuturism’s presence in daily life. She has exhibited artworks nationally and has sustained relationships with several local institutions where she’s served as a teaching artist, collaborator, researcher, and advisor.