Time-Honored Non-Specifics Artist Bios and Photographs
Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
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Naomi Chambers
Instagram: @naomibdaygirl
Naomi Chambers is a painter and assemblage sculptor born in 1987 in Pittsburgh. After receiving an undergraduate degree in studio arts and marketing, she took the leap to be a full time artist and had her first solo show in January 2013. In 2017, she worked with a collective of artists to open FlowerHouse, a community art studio and creative space in Wilkinsburg offering workshops and classes to the predominantly Black community. Also in 2017, she was awarded an Investing In Professional Artists grant from the Heinz Endowment and Pittsburgh Foundation.
Bulumko Mbete
Instagram: @bulumko.mbete
Born in 1995 on a serendipitous Saturday, Mbete is a creative practitioner with multicultural heritage. She is based in liminal spaces. Bulumko Mbete undertakes research in different forms of craft and design methodologies which are predominantly performed by women in Southern Africa. Her current research focuses on this form of craft and design as indigenous knowledge systems and archives. Her work is influenced by this mode of storytelling and production. She creates a framework to communicate generational traditions and gestures of love using textile, beading, natural dyeing and weaving.
Afrooz Partovi
Website: unche.studio/afrooz-partovi
Instagram: @afroozpartovi
Afrooz Partovi is an artist-architect who explores intangible dimensions of time and space through immersive technologies and time-based media. Her work delves into absences as vessels to trace what has been forgotten, erased or transformed into nonexistence. Digital realms serve as both medium and metaphor in this exploration, challenging the primacy of physicality as the definitive marker of presence. Her work explores how the recontextualization of absences in digital realms can uncover deeper narratives of resistance and resilience.
About the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
The Carnegie Mellon School of Art is the premier location for the interface between art, technology, and interdisciplinary art practice. Combining the advantages of a renowned studio program with the resources of a top-tier university, the School offers two fine arts degrees, the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts, and supports three interdisciplinary degrees known collectively as the BXA Intercollege Degree Programs. Connect with the School on Instagram at @cmuschoolofart or visit art.cmu.edu for more information.
About Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. More than 13,000 students in the university’s seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.
The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.
The Andy Warhol Museum
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials and is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums.
Carnegie Museums
Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums is a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.4 million people a year through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events.
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Naomi Chambers, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Naomi Chambers, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
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Naomi Chambers, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Naomi Chambers, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
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Bulumko Mbete, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Bulumko Mbete, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
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Bulumko Mbete, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Bulumko Mbete, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
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Afrooz Partovi, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Afrooz Partovi, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
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Afrooz Partovi, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
Afrooz Partovi, photograph by Aaron Blum. Courtesy of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
