Sista Creatives Rising

  • A collage of diverse faces of artists, many of which are women of color and femme-expressing creatives. In the bottom right corner is the Sista Creatives Rising logo. In the middle is a faded white text box that reads, “Art & Mind: Our Virtual Charitable Disability-Accessible Art Event.”
  • Screengrab of a Zoom event which includes a still from a featured documentary, which includes photos of diverse faces of creatives. Zoom participants are shown to the right, with an active chat.
  • The Art & Mind 2023 poster is a digitally drawn sunflower field. The sunflowers fade into the background, leading to green and grey mountains with an abstract curly pattern at their bases. The mountains are rounded at the top, and fade into a whitish green. The sky is blue with white paint splotches and swirls as clouds. Three mustard yellow circles are lined up in the middle of the poster stating details about “Art & Mind: I Know Who I Am! Journeys of Women of Color & Femme-Expressing Creatives.”
  • Freedom Festival Semi-Finalist. SISTA CREATIVES RISING PRESENTS Art & Mind An "I Know Who I Am" Virtual Fundraiser & Film Event Documentary About Cancer A 50% CHANCE OF PARALYSIS: Get Ahead of Life Before Life Gets Ahead of You! Art by Amaranthia Sepia. Additional coloring by Linlin Yu. A nude voluptuous brown woman holding a red cane with a white handle in front of her, stands at the edge of a clear pond shaped like Earth.

Our Purpose

Sista Creatives Rising (not a non-profit or LLC!), is a Black, disabled, mother-daughter org founded by Claire Jones & Amaranthia Sepia, helping marginalized women and marginalized genders gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing. 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 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.  As a Black-disabled mother-daughter duo, our work is founded on intersectionality. We don't just want to showcase the art from these communities—we want the viewer to learn about why the art came into existence by sharing the creator's lived experience and artistic culture traditions.