BUTTER & BALM: A Beauty & Wellness-Centered Workshop

BUTTER & BALM is a hands-on, sensory wellness workshop designed to help you reconnect with your body while learning the art of intentional self-care.

Through a guided, interactive experience, you’ll explore how to nourish your skin using natural, plant-based ingredients - and why what you put on your body matters.

✨ What You’ll Experience

• Learn the basics of skincare and skin health
• Explore the benefits of natural, plant-based ingredients
• Create your own rich, all-natural body butter
• Engage your senses in a calming, restorative environment

✨ What You’ll Walk Away With

• Knowledge of how to properly nourish and protect your skin
• A deeper understanding of ingredients and their benefits
• Simple, practical tools for everyday self-care
• Your own custom body butter to take home

✨ A Fully Immersive Weekend Experience

BUTTER & BALM is part of an immersive two-day workshop experience designed for creatives and the creatively-curious!

All experience levels welcome. Come for one workshop or stay all day with a discounted One or Two-Day Passport!

Led by the KUUMBA Fellows Class of 2026, comprised of 13 dynamic creative artists of color.

ADMISSION

• $20 per individual workshop

• $70 One-Day Passport

• $150 Two-Day Passport

Come for one workshop or stay for the full immersive weekend experience!

✨ Teaching Artists

Led by KUUMBA Fellows and Teaching Artists, Ashayla Patterson, Alexcia McClain, and Egypt Ray, this workshop honors ancestral practices of care, restoration, and holistic wellness - inviting you to experience self-care as both an art and a necessity.

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KUUMBA Marketplace

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$40 Vendor fee per day

✨ About KUUMBA Academy

Founded in 2022, KUUMBA Academy is a 9-month fellowship offering artistic & professional development to artists of color in the creative sector (culinary arts, fashion & style, glamour, interior design, healing arts, literary arts, media arts, performing arts, visual arts, and the like). #TuitionFree

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