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My name is Vera Weinfield, I am an artist and an art educator. I studied painting for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and since then I have lived and worked on art in many places including Texas, Mexico, Colombia, North Carolina and New York. For the past 5 years I have focused on community murals and narrative painting that deal with social justice issues connected to the communities I am living and working with. As an educator and community artist I am very excited to get to know the community at the Morrison and help facilitate art projects and foster a creative space.

Alena Mehic was born in Zavidovići, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1995 and immigrated to Nashville, Tennessee with her family in 1997. In May 2017, she completed her BFA in Studio Art from Middle Tennessee State University. Her work researches historical literary and media material from her homeland. Through paintings, prints and drawings, her practice examines the discomfort from cultural displacement experienced by those in the diaspora and the complex generational ideologies with pre-war Yugoslavia. She is currently an MFA Studio Art candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.