College and Community Fellowship
This initial workshop focused on justice-impacted women at College and Community Fellowship, offering participants the opportunity
to reclaim their narratives and share their lived experiences. The theme for the program was “Reflection.” Using reflective props, the twelve participants explored not only photography but also new ways of being creative producing work that was deeply personal and uniquely their own.
Through photography, dialogue, and creative writing, participants created stories that highlight their warrior strength and resilience. The program concluded with each woman crafting a written piece titled “A Masterpiece in the Making.”
Their art—both in photographs and in writing—is nothing less than a collection of masterpieces.
This initial workshop focused on justice-impacted women at College and Community Fellowship, offering participants the opportunity
to reclaim their narratives and share their lived experiences. The theme for the program was “Reflection.” Using reflective props, the twelve participants explored not only photography but also new ways of being creative producing work that was deeply personal and uniquely their own.
Through photography, dialogue, and creative writing, participants created stories that highlight their warrior strength and resilience. The program concluded with each woman crafting a written piece titled “A Masterpiece in the Making.”
Their art—both in photographs and in writing—is nothing less than a collection of masterpieces.
The kind of certainty that only comes from a woman who has walked through fire and decided she wasn’t goign to smell like smoke anymore.
I see “healing out loud so the next person doesn’t have to suffer in silence.”
A masterpiece doesn’t announce itself.
It doesn’t explain itself.
It doesn’t rush its becoming.
Because tragedy turned into purpose, and purpose turned into calling. Because I want to stand in the fullness of who I am -- woman, teacher, dreamer, builder -- and recognize that every scar, every lesson, every act of love has added definition to this portrait.
The girl who first heard she had beautiful eyes would see --joys, losses, classrooms, prison walls, gardens blooming, prayers whispered in the dark.
