Nidah Mohammed

Nidah Mohammed studies art, emotion, and curiosity among Philadelphia’s artists and general community. She utilizes mixed methods to explore curiosity's impact on the creative process and aims to engage the community in meaningful dialogue.

Nidah Mohammed studies art, emotion, and curiosity within artists and members of the Philadelphia community. With a background in psychology, Nidah utilizes mixed methods to delve into the connections between creativity, emotion, flourishing, and social consciousness. By investigating how artists draw inspiration from their surroundings and experiences, she studies how different models of curiosity drive their process in creating transformative works of art.

Through in-depth qualitative (e.g., interviews, thematic analysis) and quantitative (e.g., ecological momentary assessment [EMA], surveys, natural language processing [NLP]) methods, she explores how curiosity practices shape artists' creative endeavors. She then observes their impact on the Philadelphia community to illuminate the complex dynamics of creativity and social change. By bridging academic inquiry with community engagement, Nidah strives to create meaningful dialogue within both academic and artistic circles.