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Carpe Artista Art Instructor – 2025 – Present  

Buchanan Arts Emerging Artist Fellowship/Teaching Artist – 2025  

HAPI Arts Art Instructor – 2025 – Present 

Turnip Green Creative Reuse Teaching Artist – 2024 – Present 

Murfreesboro Art League – 2024-2026 –Board President 2026-2028  

Buchanan Arts Center – Board Member 2026  

Art Around Tennessee Member  – 2025-2026  

Tennessee Art League – 2025-2026  

Professional Association of Visual Artists (PAVA) – 2024 

Stone Rivers Craft Association (SRCA) – 2024-2026  

Tennessee Craft – 2024-2026  

Teen Artist and Writer – 2001–2004  

ArtsCOOL  Program Participant – 2001–2003 

What We Carry: Stories After Silence
January 3–24, 2026
Opening Reception: January 3, 1–9 PM
A solo exhibition exploring memory, healing, and the emotional residue we carry, expressed through mixed media, sculpture, and narrative form.

Whispers & Roots: Intertwined Worlds
Gallatin Public Library, Gallatin, TN — May 2025
A solo presentation of fiber, clay, and mixed media works examining connection, ancestry, and the stories we inherit.

Blue Cloud Coffee Art Series
Atlanta, GA — 2005, 2006, 2007
A three-part series of intimate solo exhibitions featuring early paintings and the development of foundational themes in the artist’s practice.

Between the Avenues
The Arcade, Nashville, TN — July 2026
Group exhibition 

Again & Again 2
Trellis & Vine, Smyrna, TN — March 2026
Group exhibition centered on repetition, material transformation, and visual rhythm.

Annual Member Show
The Washington Theatre, Murfreesboro, TN — March 2026
Group exhibition - Murfreesboro Art League

Again & Again
Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN — January 2026
Group exhibition centered on repetition, material transformation, and visual rhythm.

Red, White, Blue, & You
Church Street Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN — July 2025

The Tiny Show
Art Round Tennessee, Cookeville, TN — April–July 2025

Plein Air Plus
Fifty Forward Donelson, Nashville, TN — Spring 2025

TGCR x Feedback Nashville Exhibition
Nashville, TN — Fall 2024

Murfreesboro Art Crawl
Murfreesboro, TN — 2025, 2024

Georgia Perimeter College Student Art Show
Atlanta, GA — 2014

May 2026 — Art In the Village, Murfreesboro, TN

October 2025 — Harvest Day, Murfreesboro, TN

September 2025 — ‘Boro Art Crawl, Murfreesboro, TN

May 2025 — The Tiny Show, Art Round Tennessee, Cookeville, TN

May 2025 — Artist Showcase, Gallatin Public Library, Gallatin, TN

Feb–May 2025 — Plein Air Plus, Fifty Forward Donelson, Nashville, TN

Dec 6, 2024 — Liberty Station, Murfreesboro, TN

Nov 23–24, 2024 — ‘Boro Art Crawl & Art Studio Tour, Murfreesboro, TN

Nov 22, 2024 — Artist Takeover, Middle Ground Brewing Company, Murfreesboro, TN

Nov 16, 2024 — 3rd Saturday Open Studio Show, Acorn Haven Studios, Lascassas, TN

Nov 9, 2024 — Lebanon Art Crawl, Lebanon Public House, Lebanon, TN

Nov 8, 2024 — ‘Boro Art Crawl, Church Street Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN

Sept 29, 2024 — ‘Boro International, MTSU Art, Murfreesboro, TN

Sept 6–7, 2024 — ‘Boro Art Crawl, Hop Springs Brewery, Murfreesboro, TN

“Artist-in-Residence Program Participant.” Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, March 2026.  

Featured participant in the Artist-in-Residence program, engaging museum visitors through live art demonstrations and hands-on creative activities that promote accessibility, community engagement, and experiential arts learning. 

"Meet Haniyfa Muhammad Branka." Maker Spotlight, Roundabout Smyrna, March 1, 2026.  

Featured artist profile highlighting my multidisciplinary artistic practice, community engagement, arts  education, and leadership as founder of Trust Yourself.  

"Again & Again." Exhibition Press Release. Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN. January 2026. 

Press release for the group exhibition Again & Again, featuring work by Haniyfa Muhammad Branka,  Chris Hundo, Lulu Marin, and Tessa Pardo, presented by Elephant Gallery in partnership with Buchanan Arts Center's Teaching Fellows Program  

 What We Carry: Stories After Silence. COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2026. Listed by LOCATE Arts 

"What We Carry: Stories After Silence." Press Release, Coop Gallery at The Packing Plant, Nashville, TN. January 2026. Announcing the solo exhibition What We Carry: Stories After Silence by Haniyfa Muhammad Branka, including an opening reception and artist workshop.  

Introducing the 2025 Class of Periscope: Artist Entrepreneur Training. ABC Nashville, March 19, 2025. 

Williams, R. (2025, February 24). Twendé Accelerator Welcomes 2025 Spring Cohort. 

Bold Journey Article, Winter 2024 "Meet Haniyfa Muhammad Branka", December 23, 2024 

Watertown Express, May 2023-June 6,2024 “Local Nonprofit Trust Yourself Wins 2024 Purple Ribbon Award, Stands with Survivors.”  

“Falling through the cracks” by Abby Nutter, July 29th, 2023, Lebanon Democrat  

Jill Young Miller, “Back to (a new school),” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 8, 2001 

Sheree A. Quinn “Art’s cool South Fulton area teens take part in summer camp.” South Fulton, July 3, 2002