Bridging Gaps From the Past to the Present and to the Future
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Mission - An Art Advocacy Project Founded By A Black Disabled Mother-Daughter Duo
"To help creative marginalized women and marginalized genders gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing."
- Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia
Mother-Daughter Team & Creators of Sista Creatives Rising
A Black Disabled Women-Owned Project
About
Sista Creatives Rising, a Black, disabled, mother-daughter grassroots org/project founded by Claire Jones & Amaranthia Sepia, aims to help marginalized women and marginalized genders gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing.
We are 100% virtual, and we aren't an LLC or non-profit.
SCR seeks to strengthen our community through virtual engagements and, soon, workshops, including our free disability-accessible event, "Art & Mind." Through documentaries, short films, 3D virtual galleries, speaking engagements, and free resources led by therapists and disability activists, "Art & Mind" highlights these artists while fundraising at each event for our microgrant program, The Sistas Uprising Fund. Our first show occurred in 2021, leading to the creation of SCR in 2023.
We pride ourselves on working with primarily homebound/bedbound disabled artists who are BIPOC, COVID-conscious, and queer, as they’ve been left behind due to organizers with a ‘post-pandemic mindset’ abandoning virtual events to pursue inaccessible in-person-only gatherings. COVID-19 is still a pandemic (not endemic), according to the WHO. Based on our own homebound experience and feedback from our community, we’ve stepped up to fill the gap by creating a platform to keep wisdom and life lessons alive for the next generation of multi-marginalized, isolated, underfunded, unaccommodated creatives, archiving these stories through accessible films and gatherings.
View Our 2024 Intro Video!
Learn more about our work!
Sista Creatives Rising Intro Video - Helping Marginalized Creatives Gain Visibility & Accessibility
Awareness, Education And Inclusivity Through The Arts
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SCR develops a grassroots charitable art event and virtual gallery art show, "Art & Mind," which supports creative marginalized women and marginalized genders to share their journeys. This event uses short films, documentaries, entrepreneur features, and speaking engagements from professionals such as therapists and activists to raise awareness about social issues these creatives face.
These shows are in collaboration with various activist organizations supporting marginalized creatives.
Interested in Virtual Engagements & Workshops Centered On Disability & The Arts?
Co-Founder Claire Jones is a virtual public speaker and collaborates with Amaranthia Sepia to facilitate virtual disability accessible keynotes and workshops. As a lymphoma, paralysis and domestic violence survivor, she helps marginalized women activate their light, in the middle of chaos, by recognizing the causes and effects of intergenerational trauma.
"An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness; it is a ministry of presence." - Brené Brown
Black & Still COVIDing Stories
As part of our work for Sista Creatives Rising, we advocate for virtual and hybrid spaces for disabled, chronically ill/immunocompromised people, along with people who aren't disabled but want to stay safe. We are disabled and immunocompromised ourselves. As a result, we are still masking, and "Still COVIDing." With mask mandates fading, especially in healthcare, many of us are restricted to our homes. Since Black people are disproportionately affected by COVID, we're looking for Black people to share their stories. The slideshow containing these stories, titled "Black And Still COVIDing: Stories of Separation, Isolation, Disability and Hope," will be continuously updated. It will be shared with organizations focusing on Black social justice issues, BIPOC experiences, marginalized identities, disability, mental health, health and wellness, and artist organizations.
Testimonials
In 2023, I had the pleasure to work with Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia, organizers of Sista Creatives Rising. Dancing Queerly was an organizational sponsor of their program: “Art & Mind - I Know Who I Am! - Journeys of Women of Color and Femme-Expressing Creatives.” As an organization, Sista Creatives Rising does necessary and beautiful work: building community around anti-oppressive practices in the arts. As individual artists, Amaranthia and Claire combine their artistry and activism to powerful effect–drawing on their personal experiences to address pervasive social issues such as medical racism, bullying in public education, and COVID-consciousness (to name only a few). I am so glad to know them both, and am excited to witness their future work.
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