What is Womxn’s Work?
The answer lies in your creativity.
Energize the connection between your heart and hands. Bring your voice to life through color, form, and shape. Invite your curiosity and intuition to grow as you open to possibility in this circle of womxn.
The Founders
Briah Luckey
As an artist and art therapist I am passionate about creativity as a path of liberation. I open space for community art making with a focus on play and possibility based on realizing that creativity is innate and we can access it in direct proportion to our divestment from white supremacy. White supremacy teaches us early that perfectionism, quantity, and one right way to do things is the standard. Through practicing art making, and listening to our intuition, we learn and begin to internalize that this is not true, that there are a multitude of ways to bring expression to life and often the magic is in the mess. It is in the surprise of the color, complexity of the relationships between shapes and in the depth of transparency that we begin to taste liberation. With this we belong for ourselves, learn to question the machine of racialized capitalism, and start to unhook from it’s othering grasp. I believe this is how we can move towards greater relationality, with ourselves, each other, the planet, the other animals and beyond. This is my hope from deep within. At the studio we invite you to join us if you want to be part of collective liberation practice, decolonizing yourself one breath, brush stroke, and step home to yourself at a time.
Sarah Cohen
Sarah joined the New Haven studio as part of a pilot art group called M.O.S.S. (Mom’s Open Studio Series). Navigating new motherhood and trying to reimagine her next chapter in the midst of these major life transitions, she found incredible healing and support within the studio--reclaiming her love of pattern and printmaking while being held in community with loving and like-minded womxn. She found herself being braver in community than on her own and by showing up for herself, the energy flowed out to her relationships and within my home.
In March 2020, Womxn’s Work was accepted into Collab’s Accelerator Spring cohort program in New Haven.
“Working in partnership with another womxn on our own terms has allowed me to be witnessed and co-create in a powerfully new and meaningful way. The lesson I seem to continue to learn is to return, ground, and be gentle and give grace to myself through the process of creating. I feel so grateful to be part of this heart-expanding community.” — Sarah Cohen, Womxn’s Work Co-Founder
Have a question or suggestion?
We’d love to learn more about you and how you connect to your creativity. Sign up for a free 30-min consultation with art therapist, Briah Luckey.