About this Event
Wellness + Art + Vision (WAV) is a fragrance-free, culturally rooted, multigenerational creative healing space designed intentionally for Black communities in Oregon.
✨IN APRIL WE'RE CELEBRATING NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! 🫰🏽🫰🏿🫰🏼🫰🏾✨
WAV centers wellness as both personal restoration and collective liberation. In April, we will focus on ENVISIONING, WRITING & SPEAKING WORDS THAT PROMOTE OUR HEALING, GOALS & DREAMS, and that nurtures healing, imagination, future-building, and Black Joy.
This is not just an art event.
This is a breathable, affirming space where Black bodies, stories, dreams, creativity, and Black Joy are welcomed and honored.
Whether you are:
- A creative seeking inspiration
- An elder carrying wisdom
- A young visionary building your future
- A family longing for safe, affirming space
- Or someone simply needing room to breathe
WAV is for you.
✨ What to Expect
- Guided creative visioning activities
- Multigenerational art experiences
- Reflection, poetry and storytelling
- Community connection
- Intentional fragrance-free environment
- Space to imagine healing futures rooted in Black Joy — together
No artistic experience is required — just come as you are, create in your own way or just join us to BE and connect with community.
🌺 Fragrance-Free Commitment
To ensure accessibility for community members with asthma, chemical sensitivities, and invisible disabilities, this is a low-to-no fragrance event. We kindly ask all participants to refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes, strong essential oils, or heavily scented products.
Breath is sacred. Access is love.
🤎 Sponsored By
This event is generously sponsored by , whose mission centers culturally affirming mental health and wellness programming for Oregon’s Black/African American and Spanish-speaking communities.
🎤 Facilitators
Angela Braxton-Johnson
Facilitated by , Founder of Poetically Inspiring Change, Coach, Author, Poet & Educator. Angela brings nearly four decades of experience in education, community leadership, and culturally grounded healing work. Her approach weaves creativity, Legacy-building, embodied wellness, and Black Joy.
Sunshine Dixon
Co-facilitated by Sunshine Dixon, a well-known Portland-born-and-raised Artist, whose work you will see in Portland Museums, galleries and hanging in Portland homes and who's book is available in the Portland Library. As a Creative Strategist, Sunshine’s work centers culture, creativity, and community visioning, helping participants translate imagination into expression grounded in Black Joy.
Together, they curate spaces that are intentional, liberating, healing-centered, and rooted in Black Joy.
🌊 Why WAV: Wellness + Art + Vision Workshops?
Because healing is communal.
Because art is resistance.
Because vision is strategy.
Because Black Joy is medicine.
WAV is an invitation to gather, create, reflect, and build toward collective wellness — together, in breath, in beauty, and in Black Joy.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
16 NE Killingsworth St, 16 Northeast Killingsworth Street, Portland, United States
USD 0.00
