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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
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https://www.kellyirvinedesign.art/ Bio: Kelly Irvine (she/her) is an abstract painter living and working in Baltimore, MD. Her work explores the interaction of color and transparency to create visual depth and affect mood. She works primarily with thinned acrylic paint applied to raw canvas, enabling new colors to form where transparent forms overlap. She often sews painted canvas and sheer fabric together, allowing the sheer areas reveal the stretcher bars underneath, thus drawing the viewer into the depths of the painting. Currently an MFA candidate at Towson University, Irvine received her bachelor’s degree in graphic design from University of Maryland and subsequently studied painting at the Yellow Barn in Glen Echo. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Her work has been selected for group exhibitions at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, Hamilton Gallery, Maryland Art Place, and Gallery 410 in Baltimore, as well as University of Mary Washington Galleries in Fredericksburg, VA, Martha Spak Gallery in Washington DC, the Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD, and at Glen Echo Park in MD. Kelly is a 2023 Maryland State Arts Council grant recipient.
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