About this Event
BUTTER & BALM is a hands-on, sensory wellness workshop designed to help you reconnect with your body while learning the art of intentional self-care.
Through a guided, interactive experience, you’ll explore how to nourish your skin using natural, plant-based ingredients - and why what you put on your body matters.
✨ What You’ll Experience
- Learn the basics of skincare and skin health
- Explore the benefits of natural, plant-based ingredients
- Create your own rich, all-natural body butter
- Engage your senses in a calming, restorative environment
✨ What You’ll Walk Away With
- Knowledge of how to properly nourish and protect your skin
- A deeper understanding of ingredients and their benefits
- Simple, practical tools for everyday self-care
- Your own custom body butter to take home
✨ A Fully Immersive Weekend Experience
BUTTER & BALM is part of an immersive two-day workshop experience designed for creatives and the creatively-curious!
All experience levels welcome. Come for one workshop or stay all day with a discounted One or Two-Day Passport!
Led by the KUUMBA Fellows Class of 2026, comprised of 13 dynamic creative artists of color.
ADMISSION
• $20 per individual workshop
• $70 One-Day Passport
• $150 Two-Day Passport
Come for one workshop or stay for the full immersive weekend experience!
✨ Teaching Artists
Led by KUUMBA Fellows and Teaching Artists, Ashayla Patterson, Alexcia McClain, and Egypt Ray, this workshop honors ancestral practices of care, restoration, and holistic wellness - inviting you to experience self-care as both an art and a necessity.
✨ Shop with Us or Be a Vendor!
KUUMBA Marketplace
Retail - Food - Wellness Vendors
FREE & Open to the Public to shop
$40 Vendor fee per day
✨ About KUUMBA Academy
Founded in 2022, KUUMBA Academy is a 9-month fellowship offering artistic & professional development to artists of color in the creative sector (culinary arts, fashion & style, glamour, interior design, healing arts, literary arts, media arts, performing arts, visual arts, and the like). #TuitionFree
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Nine Eighteen Nine Studio Gallery, 700 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, United States
USD 23.18 to USD 161.90
