Niama Safia Sandy
About Niama Safia Sandy
I am a curator, anthropologist, producer, multidisciplinary artist, and educator with over a decade of experience at the cross section of arts, communications, project management, event planning, and more. My work across disciplines aims to leverage history, the visual, written and performative arts, chiefly those of the Global Black Diaspora, to tell stories we know in ways we have not yet thought to tell them and to lift us all to a higher state of historical, ontological and spiritual wholeness in the process. I currently host and produce a weekly conversation series FOR/FOUR, featuring Black women and non-binary persons in the arts and culture. I recently helped found The Blacksmiths, a new coalition of culture workers standing together to forge support for Black liberation against anti-Black racism in the academy and at presenting institutions. The Blacksmiths have produced resources and public events engaging communities, activists, artists across disciplines, and more to close the gaps in appropriate opportunities for Black artists, curators, and administrators on the global stage. Additionally, I am a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women-identifying people who bring song to life in the spirit of activism, collective joy and resistance. I have presented work, and convened panels at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Creative Time Summit, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Rhode Island School of Design, Prizm Art Fair, UNTITLED & more. My work has been featured in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, W Magazine, Hyperallergic, OkayAfrica, and more. My writing has appeared in Artsy, Active Cultures LA, MFON: Women Photographers of the Black Diaspora, NAD NOW, and many other outlets. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute. Specialties: Art, Project Management, Event Planning, Feature & Copywriting Writing, Relationship Building, Anthropology, Logistics