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Features & Interviews

Featured: Grand Rapids Community Arts
Mooncakes Creative Studio Interview

Featured: Pretty in ink press x NoIssue.co

Featured: Voyage Michigan

Featured:
WoodTv / Join the conversation: Black Art in the Absence of Light


Black Art In The Absence of Light: Panel Discussion at GRAM

Experience Grand Rapids / The 49507 Project mural Tour

Art in Articles

for: Earth in Color / Breanna Danielle’s Guide to Storing and Prepping Vegetables

For: Mic.com / Ancestry Testing Brought Me closer to my blackness

for: ACLU / Black Joy Leads to Liberation
Artist Series

purchase by Grand Rapids Public Museum

press release: Leaders, Teachers, Healers - mural feature for Saint Mary’s Foundation

apparel

Kids for Culture - Self Love Collection - for kids ages 2T - Youth Large

decor/textiles

Nappy Head Club - The Blacker the Berry Collection

  • The Blacker the Berry Throw Blanket

  • The Blacker the Berry Beach Towel (in 3 colors)

full list coming soon! I want to offer these quick links for purchase to solely help local bookstores. I do not receive compensation from you purchasing these books.

new book! @omkari_williams’ Micro Activism is now available. 

this book was a pleasure to work on last year and i’m honored to use my art for something bigger. i love this book not just because of the art itself but the message. activism resilience • abundance • growth

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get this sticker via patre0n! 
link in bio πŸ’›

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#procreate #procreateart #artistsoninstagram #illustration #illus #blackillustrators #blackart #womenwhodraw #blackgirlsillustrate bell hooks said “rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. healing is an of communion”

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#procreate #procreateart #artistsoninstagram #illustration #illus #blackillustrators #blackart #womenwhodraw #bellhooks #commun πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈβœŠπŸΏβœŠπŸΎβœŠπŸ½πŸ€
Harvest and healing is the theme of this month. Excited to use handmade paper from @kelseypikepapercraft this month for the bloom block print club! 

✏️Join my monthly art club! 

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This art club helps support myself as an arti whose world is this! this world is yours. it’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine. 

i will be introducing my #kidlitart as i embark on my #childrensillustration journey. shouting out my agent @jmcgowanbks at @bookends_literary for all the felt cute, won’t delete. hi i’m octavia. i love eggs. one of my love languages is receiving egg related gifts 🍳 please feel free to tag me in egg related anything in this app. thank you. now back to your regularly scheduled reels and con trust your grit πŸ¦ͺ

i love to try different mediums, avenues or just different ways of thinking and using my art. very proud of my block print patch for my patrons this month. i’m in love. i’m inspired by my own work. i know it’s re πŸ•°οΈlate af, august 

1. gorgeous greens
2. 32 years on this little blue rock 
3. CYO πŸ…
4. DEFEND TRANS FUTURES | shirt: @transfigureprintco 
5. future goat mom
6. s/o to @the.dreamgoats | support your  local baby goats + support the youth 🐐
7. mom
a love letter to your crown and mine: 
Oh those curls 
How they twist and turn 
How they stretch and yearn 
Be proud of those curls 
Those kinks, the coils
From roots to soils 
They grow so effortlessly, reaching for the sun
Feeling Weightless, compa fred hampton said we don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. what we mean by that is culture that will free you. 

sorry y’all | NOT FOR SALE | client work 
but working on more prints like these in the future for my own shop w zora neale hurston said no, i do not weep at the world— i am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. 

zora inspiring me this month as i hit one year in patreon. that space has helped me open up, share what i thought would be unsharable and embarr senses - this place, this planet can be so overwhelming by our own doing and it’s important to breathe. whatever you’re going through, you’ll get through it. everything ebbs and flows and then the glow returns
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#procreate #p
PSA for my fellow four eyed friends πŸ‘“
i think @warbyparker has the best cleaning cloths ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

won’t lie…sometimes i’m amazed at how much my glasses protect me from my own eyelashes and dust 😭 
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
. ABOLISH PRISONS. NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE.
WE ARE ON STOLEN LAND. LAND BACK NOW. A Better Future Is Possible.

Land Acknowledgement
We are on land that was stolen from those indigenous to Mishigami (great water) ; originally home to people of the Three Fires - the Odawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi. I would like to pay respects to the nineteen Odawa chiefs who once governed the lands along the Grand River, in and around what is now the city of Grand Rapids.