Roots and Wings: A Juneteenth Sankofa Experience

Celebrate Juneteenth through art, reflection, and community at Arts’tination.

This hands-on workshop invites participants to explore the meaning of the Sankofa bird, a powerful African symbol that encourages us to learn from the past as we move toward the future.

Led by Dr. Yemonja Smalls, attendees will paint, collage, and embellish wooden Sankofa bird cutouts using fabric, patterned papers, beads, symbols, and meaningful words. Through guided reflection and creative expression, participants will create a personalized work of art representing heritage, resilience, identity, and hope.

The experience also includes opportunities for individual and group reflection centered on the question: What lessons, traditions, and values do we hope the next generation carries forward?

Each participant will leave with a completed Sankofa bird and a visual reminder of the connection between roots and possibility.

Event Details
🎟️ $20 per participant
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Open to the Public
⭐ Most Appropriate for Families with Children Ages 6+

Join us in celebrating Juneteenth through creativity, storytelling, and cultural reflection.

ABOUT DR. YEMONJA SMALLS

Dr. Yemonja Smalls is a multidimensional artist who has spent over twenty years professionally seeking to understand people, what motivates and challenges them and assisting in building supports to help them live their best lives. Her extensive work with people with developmental disabilities has informed her fascination with the complexities of relationships, which is a common theme reflected in many of her layered mixed-media creations.