Jamilah Sabur

Jamilah Sabur is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Interdisciplinary Sculpture in 2009 and an MFA in Visual Arts from University of California San Diego in 2014. During the 2016 election cycle, Sabur worked as an organizer for Florida Immigrant Coalition Votes and coordinated The Love Bus Project, an intervention to fight racism and xenophobia with art and civic engagement. She is interested in embodied cognition and believes in the value of emotional experience in changing minds. Sabur lives in Miami, FL.