I am a multimedia artist, researcher, and educator of Afrofuturism and Black Islam in the U.S. based in Baltimore, MD.

Read more about me here.

Recent:
Islam & Prints What Happens When We Nurture exhibition named “Best of” in the Baltimore Beat’s end-of-year publication.

Baltimore Beat’s review of Islam & Print’s What Happens When We Nurture exhibition.

UMBC Magazine’s alumni profile, “The Mundane Afrofuturism of multimedia artist Safiyah Cheatam”

  1. Assistant Manager of Teen Programs at the Walters Art Museum
  2. Co-founder of Islam & Print
  3. Trustee at the Awesome Foundation



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A Letter From the 8th Floor (2017)



2017

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3 min



Exhibition History:

2017, Born in Baltimore Film Festival, Baltimore, MD

A doomed long-distance relationship between the 3rd and 8th floors of an apartment building.




A Letter From the 8th Floor is an found footage short film that began as a fiction narrative –attached below – conveying emotion through inanimate objects. Because this story is set in the 1960's, I use footage solely from the 1950's and 1960's national public archives.