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This is a drawing of a bright blue pond with lotuses and lily pads. Surrounding the pond are some bushes and sunflowers. Above the pond is a fiery sky with smoke coming from city silhouettes on the left and right of the image.

Free Tickets For "Art & Mind: COVID, Climate & Our Future!" Now Live! Grab Yours! WE'VE EXCEEDED OUR $1500 BIPOC MICROGRANT GOAL  

"Art & Mind: COVID, Climate & Our Future" poster featuring details such as  "Expert Talks with COVIDing BIPOC Activists," "Inspiring Stories - Disability Documentary From 3 BIPOC Artists," and "Raising $1500 - For the Sistas Uprising Fund! BIPOC Artist Microgrants." Show date details include "Thursday Sept 25th - 6:30 - 9:30 PM EST"

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"ASL + Open & Auto Captioning"

Sponsors include the NH Women's Foundation Women & Girls of Color Fund, Dancing Queerly, Black Womxn in NH Collective, Northstar Black Cooperative Fellowship, NH Panther & collaborator MaskedNH."

Artwork consists of a Black full-bodied woan with a lotus flower head in a pond surrounded  lotuses, sunflowers, frogs, bees and butterflies. She is holding blue frog in her right hand.and a green frog rests on her left hand. Behind some trees in the background is a city covered in grey, brown, black, and fiery red wildfire smoke.
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A banner with a photo to the left and a photo to the right featuring Amaranthia (young Black woman with dreads) and Claire (older blad black woman) in funky alternative style black clothing outdoors with bright green trees behind them. Both of them wear glasses with black and white KN95s. In the middle of the banner is the circular Sista Creatives Rising logo featuring a Black woman with a lotus head meditating while holding a sprout in her palms. A bright sun is behind her shooting out sunrays. the text above the sun says "Sista Creatives Rising." The background is a blue watercolor wash with green vines in the top left and right corners.

under the logo it says, "An Art Advocacy Project Founded By A Black Disabled Mother-Daughter Duo."
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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 (SCR) is a 100% virtual project (not a non-profit or LLC!) and concept founded by Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo Claire Jones (age 62) and Amaranthia Sepia (age 25). 

SCR seeks to strengthen our community through virtual engagements, including our 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, disabled, queer, BIPOC creatives & activists. All our "Art & Mind" events are free to ensure that anyone can watch & participate, and people can donate to The Sistas Uprising Fund if they choose. We offer the perspective that virtual content has value and can provide audiences with innovative solutions for the often-overlooked disabled community.

Learn about our creative works, workshops, speaking events, and more!

View Our 2024 Intro Video!

Learn more about our work!

Sista Creatives Rising Intro Video - Helping Marginalized Creatives Gain Visibility & Accessibility

Sista Creatives Rising Intro Video - Helping Marginalized Creatives Gain Visibility & Accessibility

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Despite the fast-paced rise of diversity in America, marginalized creatives are still underrepresented in the arts.
“Female museum employee hires rose 2% in 2015. Women in museum leadership roles rose from 57% in 2015 to 62 percent in 2018. There is still a long way to go regarding ethnic/racial diversity in these leadership roles in large museums.”- “Museums Are Becoming More Diverse, but There’s Still Work to Do,” Benjamin Sutton, Artsy.net, Feb 8th 2019
“A study found that 85% of artists in U.S. museum collections are white, and 87% are male.”William H. Frey, Brookings.edu, March 14, 2018 (Study: Diversity of Artists in Major U.S. Museums by The Public Library of Science, 2019)
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Awareness, Education And Inclusivity Through The Arts

Woman 1 (Left): A brown skinned woman with a purple flower head is shown. Her body is decorated in swirls of hand painted designs of fuchsia, purple and pink.
Woman 2 (Middle): A light skinned woman with an icy blue flower head is shown. Her body is decorated in swirls of hand painted designs of light and dark blues and purple.
Woman 3 (Right): A dark skinned woman with a soft pink flower head is shown. Her body is decorated in swirls of hand painted designs of light and greens.

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. 

Share your experience with COVID-19 as a Black COVID Cautious Person with NAACP Seacoast (

"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. 

 

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Photo by Shawn Marquis. Photo Description: Artist and dancer Michael Winward is smiling, looking down and away

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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