Amon Ra Ptah Hotep Imhotep (also known as Deyne Wajed) is a multidisciplinary artist, arts educator, and community activist from Buffalo, New York. He attended SUNY Buffalo State where he studied art education. A multidisciplinary artisan, he also studied woodworking, jewelry making, and craft art. His works deal with themes of Afrocentricity and African cultural tradition and legacy. He has worked as a jewelry apprentice and designer at Eric Jewelers and then The Gallery of Jewels, a black-owned and operated jewelry store. Imhotep worked as a teaching artist at the Langston Hughes Center for the Visual and Performing Arts and has facilitated numerous workshops and lectures in African history, Islamic Studies, craft, and jewelry-making throughout the community. He is also the father of artists Sufana and Edreys Wajed.