This is A Sign explores the human instinct to seek out signs as a way to place meaning on otherwise arbitrary words, symbols, and circumstances in the pursuit of answers. Questioning what a sign is allows space to consider what signs do for us. Through a series of posters, sculptures, found images, and sound, This is A Sign invites viewers to experience signs for all that they are: deeply specific yet somehow universal, intensely meaningful yet completely meaningless, childish and intellectual and exciting and mundane, and everything between.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Nia Musiba (she/her) is a multidisciplinary creative with a lifelong commitment to diversifying art and design spaces. Since 2019, this has manifested primarily in community-based projects and public art. Her practice seeks to inspire others holding marginalized identities to take up their own space. Nia is interested in collaboration, experimentation, question-asking, friend-making, and above all else, dreaming big. She views her depictions of Black and brown bodies as a way of reclaiming the tenderness and complexities of her own identity, holding space for other people of color historically misrepresented in overly flattened, brutalized, and hyper-sexualized ways within art and media.