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04/29/2026

Check out my interview with/ Illinois Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza regarding Black Maternal Health!
Thank you for the opportunity to speak about this important topic with you!

02/25/2026

So wonderful to be apart of this exhibition, and to pay tribute to motherhood is a blessing! 📷
& Happy Sweet Sixteen to my Goddaughter! She is also in the exhibition, and I was there as a “doula” and photographing her birth! That image is also in the exhibition! Shout out to her Mama, the Founder of Wild Yams, Wisdom Baty! You make me soo proud, and you’ve always inspired me and encouraged me to never give up! Much love to you, and to all the artists in the exhibition! This sisterhood of artists is incredible!

:WILD YAMS, in collaboration with OH Art Foundation, presents The Space Between:
A WILD YAMS Retrospective, a seven-year reflection on the evolution of our Black mother, artist-run residency and collective. The exhibition foregrounds the WILD YAMS residency as a radical space of collaboration and partnerships that ensure the survival and vitality of artist's growth, while centering Black women's creative labor and caregiving -literally and figuratively. This retrospective brings together paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, installations, and time-based works by the WILD YAMS community of artists, alumni and current members.:

10/27/2025

’s newest art exhibition, “Not A Soft Thing: A Group Exhibition by Artist Mothers”, on view in the Chicago Rooms which opened on October 25 2025!

Not a Soft Thing is a multifaceted exhibition by 15 artist/mothers spanning diverse cultural backgrounds, disciplines, and stages of caregiving. Together, this artist collective challenges the idealized narratives of motherhood, exposing the strength, struggle, and resilience that shape both art making and parenting.
Exhibiting artists include A.Martinez, Angela Lopez, Aubrey Ingmar, Bobbi Meier, Connie Noyes, Cydney M Lewis, Jenny Halpern, Jihae Park, Katie Kirk, Keeley Haftner, Noelle Garcia, Orr Menirom, Sarana Mehra, Tulika Ladsariya, and Yemisi Oyeniyi.
Wild Yams Artist Residency has an activation station “Word to Your Mother” celebrating Mothers and Mother Figures.
A few of my photographs are featured as well as graphic design from Summer Coleman. I’m very honored to be surrounded by soo many talented artists!
Open until March 22nd, 2026!

10/02/2025

From the Bronzeville photo walk!
Bronzeville businesses highlight:
My two personal faves!
Haji healing Salon
Apothecary gem and a place I frequent for knowledge & healing & essentials. Herbs, crystals, books, plants, teas, yoga, reiki, Aya’s got what you need! Thank you for being in the community!!
Tony the barber of The Grooming Lounge 45 and Entrepreneur, I’m definitely trusting him with the clippers!
Keeps his clients looking sharp! Big ups bro!
Thank you 👏🏾

10/02/2025

09/30/2025

John H. White: Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist & living legend! He was my photojournalist instructor at Columbia College many moons back! It all came full circle, meeting with him once again after all these years! John encouraged and believed in me, when my other instructor told me to quit, that I wasn’t cut out to be a photographer. & to be honest, many times I almost did quit.
I almost lost everything. My life is a testimony of faith, strength and courage. And here I stand, still a photographer, taking a leap of faith from my “safe career”, early retiring and deciding to follow my heart, and I have my 3 year old to thank for that, he inspired me to take a gamble on me, and this past year has been absolutely incredible career wise! John I am soo grateful for you, for you eyes, for your encouragement.
Thank you for gifting my son a mini camera, and signing your picture to him!
My heart is full of joy, you don’t know how glad I am! Much love!
& in John’s words-
“Keep in Flight” 🦅

09/29/2025

Bronzeville photo walk led by Chicago’s own

The energy was incredible! Met soo many creatives and it was great to speak and talk with members of the community and engage in visual storytelling!

09/19/2025

Baby announcement 📣 & maternity shoot!

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09/04/2025

The beauty of Acre….
x Artist Residency!
My fellow artists are incredible and I’m forever inspired. More images from this artist retreat to come!
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06/27/2025

Bild Expo 2025 NYC!
Photo walks with Photographer & Sony ambassador ! It was an amazing class, it was soo many photographers and it was a great opportunity to learn and relearn shooting with both natural and continuous light.
I loaned out a Sony Alpha 1, my first time shooting this beast of a model and it was superb!
Thanks for the tips Robert! 📷
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