Cultivating the Shero Within: MOTHER is a two day life-size painting workshop for women who have lost their mothers. Recreate yourself as a life-size super shero, integrating your mother’s legacy into your powers.

Day 1: Friday, July 24th. 7:00p — 9:00p

Day 2: Saturday, July 25th. 10:30a — 4:30p

You will…

• Identify the characteristics of your mother, exploring sources of your super powers including objects, metaphor, and symbolism

• Immerse your experience using the paintbrush as a healing tool that expresses feeling and thoughts through color, line, shape and textures related to your connection and revelations

• Define who you are and what you carry forward as sacred and intentional from your mother

Accessible to ALL levels of visual art experience! No previous drawing or painting experience necessary.

Open to all women—cis, trans, or otherwise—and nonbinary individuals who find alignment in women/femme-centric spaces.

Submit this form to register.

Recommended donation is $250.00.

About Our Facilitators

Amana Harris is the Executive Director for The Center for ArtEsteem and a strategist and leader in the field of community arts. Under her leadership the organization has received numerous awards and she’s been a professor at California College of the Arts’ since 2008. Amana is a trained Attitudinal Healing facilitator with over 30 years of leading healing circles. Her book, Self As Super Hero: Handbook on the Creation of the Life-Size Self-Portrait is a testament to her 32 years of experience in arts education and the power of art to inspire children, youth and communities. Amana has a BFA in Drawing and a Master of Arts in Teaching.

Amana lost her mother in October of 2025. Her mother, Aeeshah Clottey, is the co-founder of Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc and set forth a legacy for Amana to step into and drive.

Ellen Morrison is a community artist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and mediator. Her consultancy specializes in bridging differences across power and privilege with an eye on healing and transformation. With over thirty years of experience in community mental health and a lifetime inspired by a lineage of social and arts movements, Ellen integrates a creative, trauma-informed, relational approach to her facilitation.

Ellen lost her mother in August 2024 & is guided ever since by her last words to “choose beauty.”