Amira Green is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and current student and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Working primarily in painting and printmaking, Amira focuses on creating work that highlights and aestheticizes afrocentric features that are otherwise stereotyped, through means of figurative abstraction. In her work, she explores themes of disorientation, marginalization, and generalization resulting from historical and current oppression, and its affects on black self image. Other works explore these themes digitally, while also expressing a long standing fixation on urban African culture. In painting, Amira's material usage reflects her urban upbringing, as she often incorporates materials directly from or referencing her surroundings. Her body of work, while diverse, is tied together by an overarching ambition to create imagery that inspires joy and pride within the black community, despite socio political adversity.