Safiyah Cheatam is a multimedia artist, researcher, and storyteller of Black Islam in the U.S. and Afrofuturism. For 10 years, she has enriched Baltimore with community engagement in arts education, currently serving as the Assistant Manager of Teen and Career Development Programs at the Walters Art Museum. She is a recipient of the Washington Project for the Arts’ Wherewithal Research and Project Grant, Red Bull Arts Microgrant, Rubys Artist Grant, and VisArts’ Fleur and Charles Bresler Residency. Safiyah has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, BmoreArt, and has exhibited artworks nationally. She received a Master's of Fine Arts from UMBC and is in her 5th year of serving on the philanthropic Awesome Foundation board of trustees. Dan Flounders is a Baltimore-based Muslim printmaker and designer. He was a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center in 2023, a resident artist at The CAN Foundation in 2023, a 2021 Denbo Fellow at Pyramid Atlantic, and has completed printmaking apprenticeships at Studio1026 and Brick + Mortar Design Studio. Flounders has exhibited work regionally at Gormley Gallery, Assembly NFK, CAN Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, VisArts, HOCO, Maryland Institute College of Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Philadelphia University, Pyramid Atlantic, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Space1026, and Brick + Mortar Gallery. He holds a BFA in Design and Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). https://bmoreart.com/event/heirloom-islam-print-cohort-exhibition