Connecting Cultures: Breaking Barriers Through Visual Storytelling

My artwork delves into culture, identity, and social norms, using photography, video, paper, and wood to tell stories from a socio-humanist perspective. By highlighting Africans in the diaspora and my own experiences, I challenge dominant cultural views and invite outsiders into new worlds. This work aims to connect the disconnected and inspire viewers to rethink their perspectives, fostering a deeper understanding of our shared humanity and encouraging social change.

Queen Yeefah

2024

Blackness Is Everything

2023

Freedom

2023

Run Nigger Run

2022

What We See/What You See

2021

The Fabric of Our Lives III - We Survived

2024

Being 2022

2022

The Fabric of Our Lives

2020

A COVID Kiss

2020

Testimonials

William Rosen, Chairman and CEO - Axial 1 Performance Science

Yeefah's Art installation does not allow the viewer to be merely a casual observer, but instead forces the viewer to engage, interact, recognize and confront the realities of the social constructs of which we are all a part. The significance of every aspect of the piece channels its own power and meaning, with the overall effect a powerful and moving tour-de-force. Our involvement in the piece and our complicity in the cultural circumstances the piece addresses come together for the viewer as one explores each aspect of the installation and physically engages in its experience. The piece's unique power comes from its ability to leverage that interaction to remove any distance or barriers from the viewer and draw one into the cultural and historical reality, as difficult as it may be to face. Her piece is an innovative, moving, beautiful installation that can open hearts and minds in a way that rational discourse cannot, which is the highest compliment one can pay to an art piece.

Angela G. Ray, Ph.D., Associate Professor - School of Communication Northwestern University

Situated on a street corner and presented in the form of a residential library box, “What You See/What We See” showcases the cultural pain caused across centuries by dehumanizing, white supremacist images of the people of the African diaspora, especially Black Americans. At the same time, it also presents images of joy and achievement in Black lives and Black families. With the negative images marked “Danger” and encircling the outside of the box, and the positive images inside, sheltered behind a curtain that is printed with colorful, strong African patterns, the installation interrogates cultural representation and its effects by highlighting binaries: outside and inside, violence and safety, ignorance and truth, the profane and the sacred. Approaching the box, one is confronted with a mirror image of oneself: What do you see? How does our culture make that image meaningful to others? What is the true picture? What do differences in bodies—what Du Bois called the differences of “color, hair and bone”—signify to us, and to others? Yeefah’s art demands that we ask those questions, and whatever the mirror may show about our own body, she invites us to open the box, draw aside the curtain, and see the beauty, love, pride, and power of Black America.