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Aaminah Shakur (b.1974) is an artist, art historian, culture critic, editor, intuitive, poet, and writer. Their visual artwork is primarily mixed media that combines collage, painting, and traditional craft such as embroidery, beadwork, and other fiber arts. They are particularly interested in the preservation of traditions and so-called craft that are often gendered and racialized. Their work explores the hybridity of traditional methods and materials with futurist methods and materials that represent the cultural practice of remembering history and carrying it forward into the future. Additionally, Shakur is deeply invested in addressing how art spaces, art writing, and art conversations can be designed to be accessible in terms of disability and fatness, and inclusive of community members who have been historically erased or appropriated from and continue to be neglected or excluded. Shakur graduated with a B.S. in Art History and minor in Museum Studies in May 2019 and a certificate in Visual & Critical Studies in August 2021 from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, MI. They can be contacted at aaminahshakur@gmail.com. 

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Contact: aaminahshakur@gmail.com 

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Paypal payments can be made to aaminahshakur@gmail.com or @ShakurArts (yes, it’s my legal name on that account) – please note Paypal takes a fee out of everything I receive & reports me to the IRS

I do not currently have any other pay methods, but have friends who can take Venmo to transfer *if absolutely necessary*

For all media inquiries, please contact me for proper attribution and compensation for any quotes in any work, thesis or published materials collections, or ideas, etc. aaminahshakur@gmail.com 

There is a non-negotiable fee of $100 for reprints of articles. You must contact me for written permission, provide link to both my website and the original publisher by name, and pay the fee. Permission will not be granted until payment is made.