The Black Excellence Experience: Featuring Ini Augustine

Sabathani Community Center Presents

The Black Excellence Experience: Featuring Ini Augustine

• Saturday, September 27
• 11am–3pm
• The BEE Gallery – Room 138

Join us for a spotlight on the artwork of Ini Augustine, featured artist in the Black Excellence Experience, Sabathani’s artist residency program.

Stop by the BEE Gallery (Room 138) between 11am and 3pm to:

• Meet the artist in person
• Explore a powerful collection of original artwork
• Shop one-of-a-kind pieces
• Connect through community, creativity, and shared stories

Ini’s rare and intentional art form fuses genuine crystals with resin, creating one-of-a-kind pieces that promote mindfulness, healing, and connection to the earth. This is an opportunity:

• To witness an artistic technique unlike anything you’ve seen before
• To experience the calming, restorative power of nature-inspired art
• To support a local Black woman artist whose work centers healing, beauty, and wellness

We invite you to engage with Ini, explore her work, and reflect on how art and nature can restore the spirit.

Black and BIPOC artists have always created in abundance, yet traditional galleries and museums have historically underrepresented our voices. The Black Excellence Experience creates space to showcase this artistry, uplift community, and invite everyone to engage directly with the creative process.

Art is community—and community is art. This residency is not only a celebration, but also a chance to:

• Support a Black/BIPOC business
• Discover new mediums and creative practices
• Network and build connections
• Step out of your headspace and into inspiration

The Black Excellence Experience is a new initiative from Sabathani Community Center, supporting emerging Black artists through residencies, exhibitions, and community engagement opportunities. Learn more.

Host or Publisher Sabathani Community Center and the American Red Cross