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girl who likes to thrift, skate, and art educate 🖤
💻 teen/college programs, @thewaltersartmuseum
📌LANDLINE, on view @umdartgallery x @islamandprint

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Dan and I were featured in BmoreArt on how our upbringings and marriage nurture our creative collaboration, Islam & Print, a printmaking fellowship.

Tomorrow Friday, Oct 4 6-9pm at Gallery CA is the opening of our second cohort exhibition HEIRLOOM featuring the works of artist fellows Hoor Imad Sherpao, Madyha Leghari, and Mina Sarfaraz. Put it in your calendar!! 🥳 taken in GALLERY CA by @saphicles

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It’s finally here!! Islam & Print presents LANDLINE, a multimedia group exhibition featuring contemporary Muslim artists whose diasporic identities are shaped by memory, language, spirituality, and connections to the natural world. Guest curated by Safiyah Cheatam, the exhibition brings together works that explore the enduring ties between homeland, heritage, and belonging through sculpture, printmaking, textiles, and other media.

Featuring so many of my faves:
Suldano Abdiruhman @ziplockshorty
Sobia Ahmad @sobia.ahmad.art
Sarah Elawad @sarahmelawad
Yacine Tilala Fall @yacine_tilala
Dan Flounders @_flounders
Madyha Leghari @madyhaleghari
Tayyab Maqsood @_tm1205
Nadia Nazar @nadianazar
Mina Sarfaraz @minasarfaraz
Hoor Imad Sherpao @yesitsmehoortheartist
Asma Ahmed Shikoh @shikohasmaahmed_studio
Katie Shlon @shlonik_
Aurora Suryah @suryahstudio
Leili Arai Tavallei @at_leili

🗓️ Opening Reception, Tuesday, September 15 at 5–7 p.m.
🗓️ Curator tour & conference reception, Thursday, September 24 at 4–5:30 p.m.

On view Sept 16–Dec 4 at University of Maryland Art Gallery, 2022 Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, 3834 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742

This exhibition is in coordination with the international Islamic art conference, From the Balkans to Bengal in Baltimore: Engaging Diasporas, Shaping Publics, and Reimagining Islamic Art in American Museums at UMD, College Park on Sept 24-25, 2026.

Thank you to Sarah Slingluff @seslingluff , Taras Malta, Karin Zitzewitz, Korey Richardson, and Dan Flounders! 🥳 taken in University of Maryland by @saphicles

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It’s been a while! As we wrap up printing each fellows’ artworks, check out these behind the scenes pics of our last 6 months together!

+ 2026 Cohort Exhibition date coming soon 🥳

ty to @makingspace_bmore for always being our gathering place 🤍 taken in Making Space Bmore by @saphicles

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shawty got low (married) in ayancık 💘 taken in Ayancık, Sinop, Turkey by @saphicles

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eurasian summer 🇹🇷 taken in Istanbul, Turkey by @saphicles

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May/June was 💐☀️🥞⛺️🐴😵‍💫🌭💝🐈‍⬛📰📸🫩💗

💐 I’m grateful to have participated and sold artwork at the @afrocharities fundraiser auction and am getting back in the stu 🤓👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍🎨

💗 I celebrated 4 years of marriage w @_flounders

📸 I curated and hosted the 3rd annual teen photography program co-led with @divinagraciaphoto! On view at @thewaltersartmuseum thru August 2. Pic #1 is by a teen!!

🐈‍⬛ I’m missing my girl fr ❤️‍🩹

⛺️ I touched grass w friends

💝 celebrated/partied/reunited w so many friends!!! 🌈

🥞 Dan & I hosted our families for brunch for the first time since 2 years of homeownership

🌭 celebrated Dan’s birthday w a big cookout by @saphicles

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“How to Help Yourself,” 2026 by Safiyah Cheatam (@saphicles) is available and ready to be bid on today!

It’s a 11 in x 17 in risoprint with image transfer of paper and ink on paper. This artwork is framed and ready to hang.

Cheatam is an award-winning artist and museum educator based in Baltimore, MD. Her multidisciplinary art practice is dedicated to portrayals of Mundane Afrofuturism and uplifting Black Muslims in the U.S. through archival media. She has exhibited in galleries throughout Maryland, including The Peale (Baltimore, MD), VisArts (Rockville, MD), BlackRock Gallery (Germantown, MD), as well as at Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), and New Media Caucus (Ann Arbor, MI). In 2026, Safiyah was commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture's (NMAAHC) Center for the Study of African American Religious Life to create artwork for the museum's inaugural Ramadan iftar.

Cheatam’s work has been supported by the Grit Fund (2025), Washington Project for the Arts’ Research (2022) and Project (2023) Grants, Waller Gallery’s 2023 Studio Fellowship, VisArts’ 2021 Fleur and Charles Bresler Residency, and Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s 2019 Rubys Artist Grant. And she has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, BmoreArt, and the Baltimore Beat.

Proceeds support Afro Charities’ 2027 operating expenses — the staff salaries, archival supplies, and public programs that help us bring the AFRO Archives to the public.
Link in Bio.

#ACDreamsinBloom #AfroCharities by @saphicles

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my sweet, sweet girl of 12.5 yrs passed away yesterday 🖤 new girl had been my best friend since she was just a few of months old in the winter of 2013. she was funny and feisty. she was so brave and strong in the last month of her life. new girl loved to sit on laps and hated kids. she was a repeat offender of sticking her paws in people’s water. she loved cat tv, chicken churu, cheez-its, and taharka bros ice cream. she didn’t like being picked up or having her paws touched. new girl enjoyed jazz music and watching tv. she lived in 4 homes w me where she slept in the crescent of my stomach. new girl is now buried somewhere I can visit her everyday. inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un 🫶🏾 by @saphicles

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birthday boy 🥳 / danny wanny 🤪 / my man ❤️‍🔥 / president of floundtown 🙂‍↕️ / not the father that stepped out, the father that stepped up 🐈‍⬛ / the loml 💘 / my bestfriend 🔒 by @saphicles

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Thank you to our 2026 Guest Speakers & Critics! This is the second year that they have each returned to speak with our cohort, chosen for their valuable insights on artist career development and sharp eye for growth-centered critique.

@artauntie_ founded Waller Gallery to uplift art created by people of color.

@terimhenderson granted I&P its first press mention in her review of “What Happens When We Nurture” in the Baltimore Beat.

@ziplockshorty participated in the inaugural I&P fellowship cohort and has since produced more works on paper. by @saphicles

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5 hrs in brooklyn 🏃🏾‍♀️ by @saphicles

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the youth yearn for brazil 💚 by @saphicles

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