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Khaleelah I. L. Harris (b. 1996 Palm Beach, Florida) is a mixed media collage artist. Khaleelah's research investigates the project of identity formation and self-making practices for upper/middle class Black Women of the eras guided by the post-emancipation racial uplift projects and seeks to develop cultural taxonomies through which we can better determine how this particular group of Black Women enacted beautiful experiments with their lives. Harris earned her Master of Arts in Religion from Yale University in 2021 and is currently a graduate student at Howard University. Harris is also a Du Bosian Scholar and studies African American Freethought.

Harris centers her involvement in the arts around curatorial work with visual arts exhibits that create a visual narrative for her research surrounding her research and the topics of U.S Cultural History, African-American Women's Religious Experience, AfricanAmerican Women and HBCU Formative Years; Southern Life; and Beauty & Fashion Culture. In the Fall of 2021 Harris co-curated the exhibition, Allegories, Renditions, and a Small Nation of Women at Yale Divinity School with Black Collagists Founder Teri Henderson. 26

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Marryam Moma (b.1984 Kano, Nigeria) Tanzanian-Nigerian Marryam Moma is a visual artist who holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. Moma melds the palette of repurposed hand-cut pieces, paper, and media together into fresh, layered imagery with new associations. Deconstructing images, then re-integrating them to create something new, is an intuitive and ongoing visual experiment where color, texture, balance, shape, and space come into play.

Moma is enthralled by the creative works of Lorna Simpson, Deborah Roberts and (after a recent visit to view My Body, My Rules at The PAMM), re-discovered and fell in love with Wangechi Mutus’ collage and mixed media art. The architecture and sculptures of David Adjaye, Phil Freelon and Alexander Calder also influence her principal style and creative delivery. Moma uses collage to explore the space where spirituality, gender, race and identity, and sexuality intersect. She celebrates the human form in her work and reinforces ideas about individuality and self-love. The clarity, discipline, and execution of Momas work reflects applied strengths from a formal education in architecture.

Zoë Charlton (b. 1973) was born in Tallahassee, Florida and lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. Charlton received her MFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her BFA from Florida State University in painting and drawing. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been included in national and international group exhibitions including the Contemporary Art Museum (Houston, TX), the Studio Museum of Harlem (NYC, NY), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland), Haas & Fischer Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), Clementine Gallery (NYC, NY) and Wendy Cooper Gallery (Chicago, IL). Charlton's work has been reviewed in ARTnews and Art in America. Previous experiences range from being an animator for Flat Black Films in Austin, Texas to teaching positions at Missouri State University (MO) and Southwestern University (TX). She is an Associate Professor of Art at American University in Washington, DC.

Mehari Sequar Gallery is an independent art Gallery located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2019, the Gallery is dedicated in articulating narratives of the African Diaspora by examining the world through contemporary art.

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With focus on women-identified artists of the diaspora, we champion a range of established, emerging and international artists who explore conceptual approaches and embrace the freedoms of artistic expressions across all mediums. The Gallery also serves as a hub for artists and art scholars who interrogate the influence of Black art across hemispheres.

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