aSHE Fund Presents A Creatively Resilient-Virtual EASE IN

How might we as Black women creatives intentionally use the lessons of the past three years to build up our creative reserves and best design our future selves while continuing to navigate an unjust and challenging world?

You’re invited to our Creatively Resilient Ease-In Virtual experience on March 8, 2023 from 5:30pm to 730pm. We’re easing into 2023 with a Panel Discussion Featuring Four Black Women Creatives.

Moderated by Integrative health consultant, professional collagist, photographer, author/writer Tina Scott Lassiter

About the Moderator

Tina Scott Lassiter, MBA, is an integrative health consultant and a professional collagist, photographer, and author/writer. For over 20 years, she has facilitated innovative trainings and workshops for individuals/organizations that focus on emotional, social, and inner wellbeing.

PANELISTS

VICTORIA FORD Victoria Newton Ford is a poet from Memphis, Tennessee. She is a MacDowell and Lambda Literary Fellow, and her work has been supported by Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Hurston/Wright Writers Workshop. She earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her first manuscript about Black mothers and their daughters, captivity, and haunting.

BRENDA HAYES Brenda considers herself at 66 “late bloomer” and is currently directing her second documentary, a Black women centered film, Ain’t I A Woman – Liberation Lumpkin’s Legacy is currently in production. Her first film, BackBurner Dreams, which premiered Mother’s Day 2018, was screened from Brixton London to Baltimore, Maryland. From 2010 -2016, Brenda produced and hosted This Light: Sounds For Social Change a radio series that featured artivist who through their music, spoken word, film, dance, page poetry work to catalyze progressive social change. I want to tell stories that frequently go untold and give a platform to voices that too often go unheard. Brenda is the proud mother of award winning poet Taylor Johnson.

SANDRA DAVIS Sandra Davis is a local mixed media artist who exhibits regularly throughout Maryland, DC and Virginia. She has consistently participated in exhibits at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park and in the Kentlands. Davis is an active member of the Women’s Caucus of Art, DC Chapter and sits on the Board as the Membership Chair. Her most recent exhibit was a group show at the Anacostia Arts Center and with Art Watch DC One House Project at BlackRock Center for the Arts.

ALIANA GRACE BAILEY Aliana Grace Bailey is an interdisciplinary fiber artist, designer, and socially-engaged art practitioner. She is a passionate advocate for radical self-love, wellness, and healing. Aliana is the founder of vibrant grace studio, where she creates meaningful art installations, patterns, design, and art + healing workshops. vibrant grace studio caters to health, social justice, and wellness-centered initiatives dedicated to the wellness, joy, and liberation of Black communities. Aliana’s work embraces artmaking as a vehicle for growth, building intimacy, and creating inner peace through weaving vibrant colors, materials, narratives, and environments.

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AYAH CREATES Ayah is a mixed media artist whose work centers the trials and triumphs of womanhood. Many of her visual narratives celebrate female archetypes, examine both masculine and feminine energy, and explore the nuanced depths of the human condition and range of emotion.