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

Save the Date Islam & Print presents LANDLINE, a multimedia group exhibition, at  University of Maryland Art Gallery, on view Sept 15–Dec 4. Reception: Thurs, Sept 24 2026.

See The Judgement of America at The Galleries at CCBC Catonsville, on view through July 3, 2026. Read more here.

Read Baltimore Beat awards Teen Takeover at The Walters with “The Kids Are Alright” for Best of 2025: Arts & Culture (Dec 2025)

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


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Progress


This digital collage is a commission for the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s (NMAAHC)’s 2026 Inaugural Ramadan Iftar themed “Freedom Dreams” led by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Ph.D.

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2026

︎ Digital collage


The Judgment of America 


Isolated newspaper headlines from Muhammad Speaks, a 1960-1975 Nation of Islam periodical, highlights criticisms of the U.S. and predictions of its downfall. Their message and social efforts are investigated through the lens of Black counter-culture.

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2025

︎ Installation, paper


Witness


This digital collage is a compilation of archival images, newspapers, and portraits about the life and rememberance of Yarrow Mamout (1736–1823). 

2025

︎ Digital collage


I wish I was unhappy


This artwork represents the concept of the Veil as referenced in W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk as a means of yearning for what is withheld on the other side.

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2021

︎ Installation, textiles



"Singing Praises to God" II 

The Arabic word   الحمدلله  means “Praise be to God,” the phrase used to describe a day in the life of Yarrow Mamout post-enslavement, signifying the importance of Arabic literacy to Black Muslims in the U.S.

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2021

︎ Installation, mixed media


#AllRappersGoToHeaven


This artwork invites viewers to use cellphones to uncover reactive videos. This work explores a counter-culture formed at the intersection of Islam and Rap music, with a nod to technology’s role in furthering the vulnerability of Black American and marginalized people.

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2014 - 2022

︎︎ Installation, mixed media: photographs augmented reality, video 


Things Imagined


This body of work is a multimedia social practice installation that uses Mundane Afrofuturism and the halo motif to externalize and visually manifest the hopes of its Afro-diasporic participants.

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2019 - 2022

︎︎ Installation, mixed media: augemented reality, photographs, video 


Specks and Sums


Interested in narratives that challenge anthropocentrism, I carved rubber into ant stamps to create a massive mural that resembles the movement of galaxies, ant death spirals, tawaf, vortexes, hurricanes, moving atoms, planetary orbit, tree rings, and more thinking about recurring patterns in natural phenomena and the power in numbers.

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2019

︎ Installation, paint


As Ritual, As Liminal 


This work is a social critique of the Saudi government’s involvement in behavioral dissonance, participating in various forms of corruption while also being the host country of Islam’s holiest site, the Ka’bah in Mecca. Aestheticizing the Ka’bah as a concept and as a monument, this piece melds two theorists’ concepts of physical and metaphorical space.

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2018

︎ Installation, sculpture