Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary
Indigo & Cowrie Freedom Village
Honeycomb BiPOC Digital Archive
Sweet Herbs Herbal
Online Shop & Market Vendor
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Sweet Cause Donation Fund
Bees of the Indigo Ancestral Project
The Legacy Bearers
Dreamers-in-Residency Project
Ase' O community Arts & Wellness Education Program
Learn Together
"Art is when you use your imagination and feelings to make painting or drawings. It's peaceful for me when I draw. You could inspire others to try drawing and make themselves happy and calm. Art can also be frustrating if you keep messing up over and over, but don't give up."
- Abby M. 5th Grade
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Group Project: Building
Sustainable Communities
Process: Final Piece with Sticky
Note Reflections
RE-envisioning our communities:
Using art for bridging relationships, solutions and indigenous survival-safety
8th Grade
Group Project: Building
Sustainable Communities
Process: Idea Mapping & Establishing Community Needs
Our Roots
Asé O Descendants of Roots & Legacy is an educational initiative under Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary LLC that promotes the power of community, the arts, wholistic health, and educational liberation. We ground ourselves in the power of expression that breathes life into learning through creative practice and world-building.
As descendants of resilient, communal, and creative ancestors of the diaspora, each person who joins this work with us joins us in carrying the torch of legacy, bridging the sacred wisdom(s) of expression, activism, intergenerational healing, and community bridging.
Our mission is to provide explorative and imaginative learning environments that empower our understanding of the world around us and our role in social change.
We believe that arts and wellness can ignite the spark of creativity, informing space for critical thought that empowers research, reflection, community solution building, world mapping, and the accessibility of creating an equitable world.
“Education is the most powerful 'gift' which you can use
to change the world”.
Ancestor Nelson Mandela
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Introduction to Natural Dyeing & Painting Workshop
Partnership with Lion Creek
Apartments
Oakland, CA
Teen Creative Camp
Self-Affirmation Paintings
Contract with Third Futures School
Aurora, CO
4th & 5th Grade
Introduction to Natural Dyeing & Painting Workshop
"Mural to our Ancestors"
Partnership with Abundant Beginnings Freedom Forest School
Oakland, CA
Kindergarten Camp
We are Inventors:
Inventor's Sculpture Project
Contract with Third Futures School
Aurora, CO
7th Grade
Our mission is to use creativity to expand minds and unveil new pathways that support individuals learning abilities, creative passions, careers, and potential teaching interests that welcome new ways to use their natural gifts and interest(s). This support in expansion and imagination brings forth the necessary tools that uplift healthy minds, expand hearts, and cultivate a brighter intergenerational future.
Asé O centers the exploration of life through the lens of creative practice that gives participants the nurturing space to explore and practice the research, discovery application, and radical action of using a creative expression for unpacking trauma and intergenerational patterns while embracing new perspectives of healing, personal fulfillment, global liberation, and social change.
This discovery constructs through the lens of the Socio-Ecological Model and Social Change Ecosystem of understanding our part in collective social change.
We fight to make teamwork, the dream work
in and beyond the classroom
We offer teaching, coaching, curriculum development, project coordination, and program development services to our community partners and families.
Through our program projects and community partnerships, we collaborate and provide teaching opportunities to community facilitators to provide learning experiences that uplift radical healing, skill development, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Through our short and long-term projects:
- Youth and Adult workshops
- Healing Arts 1:1 & Group sessions
- Arts Integrative Camps
- K-12 Semester & Year Term classes
-High School Artist Portfolio Development (Art, Beauty & Barber School) with professional readiness support
-Curriculum & Arts Instructional Material Development
-Google Classroom: Social breakdowns for organizations, collectives, educators, and parents & 206 Book List by BIPOC authors
We provide multidisciplinary arts lessons and projects that bridge cultural, historical, and creative connections for new and seasoned BIPOC creatives to introduce their field through teaching and expand their teaching pedagogy.
We cater our learning environments to bridge essential gaps and create accessible long-term strategies and opportunities with BIPOC communities in the U.S. and internationally.
Asé O Foundations
Community Care
Legacy building
Each one, Teach one
Inquiry- based learning
Cultural &Ancestral Awareness
Empowerment
Wholistic Development
Key Areas of Focus
Learning & Understanding
Collaboration & Community
Critical & Creative Thinking
Skill Development
Exploration
Learning
Practice
Expression
Self, Socio, Cultural & Global Awareness
Analyzation & Research
Problem-Solving & Inquiry based learning
Students work.
Elements of Art
Form through Cardboard Sculptures, 5th Grade
Elements of Art
Observational Still Life Painting: Color Theory & Value
Intro to Cultural Arts
Indigenous People's Days
Elements of Art
Line Observation Drawings:
Still Life
Intro the Cultural Arts
Hispanic Heritage Month
Community Interactive Wall
Affirmation Wall, 7th Grade
SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
Unpacking Stories through Line Collages, 8th Grade
Building Sustainable Communities
8th Grade
Curriculum & Lesson Plan: Arts technique, Cultural Arts & Artivism, Elements of Art, Arts integration, Arts Social Emotional Learning
Programming: Including how to integrate Arts & Wellness into schools.
World Building Project:
Creative Entrepreneurship & Neighborhood- Community Development
4th Grade | Dream Big Art Camp
Social Emotional Learning Through the Arts:
Guided Question- If I could Change the world
Drawing Meditation & Reflection | 8th Grade
Community Facilitators:
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We support new and interested artists in teaching through instructional coaching. We help you build and construct the necessary skills in your educational development within and beyond the classroom. This development includes community and time management, educating through the lens of your craft, curriculum building, lesson planning, teaching pedagogy,, etc...
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We hire a guest facilitator of all creative fields to facilitators community sessions and workshops. We welcome disciplines: Poets, comedians, visual artists, dancers, chefs, musicians, yoga & dance, public speakers, safe sex educators, herbalists, wellness practitioners, farmers, etc...
How?
Schools, Businesses, Nontraditional Learning & Organizations:
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We support schools, organizations, alternative schools and centers with curriculum development and supporting their teachers in building upon their professional development and team building.
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We support organizations through professional development workshops where we use arts and wellness activities for team building. such as meditation, reflection, arts integration, social emotional learning through the arts.
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We support our partnerships and collaborators through introducing our program to shelters, forest schools, service centers, alternative learning environments, youth and adults' organizations.
Interactive Installation: Community Mural & solutions Wall
Black Healing Summit in partnership with Community Interventions, Bakersfield, CA, February 2024
