The Mothership: Where We Come From
Stars Shine For Years Before They’re Seen
After a decade of incubating the arts in Dallas, by offering space and mentorship for so many to shine, I was in an accident that made me remember that W.A.A.S stood for We Are All Stars— that “we” included me. Having the chance to create a space for community to grow and to celebrate those that lead through their creativity has been a shining moment in my career. While in healing, I discovered that supporting others only goes as far as the one supporting has grown.
My intent has always been to learn from my work, and to make community one of my mediums as an artist. So I pivoted to amplifying my work through learning, shifting inward as I worked to expand.
Stars Burn Out
Learning from three generations of a family who has designed and manufactured materials for construction, I see bodies like buildings and believed in designing and creating tools for their development.
Two decades as a Celebrity Makeup & Hair Artist across the country with leading brands like Christian Dior, with another decade of Art Collection, Gallery Management in L.A. and Dallas, and Art Production, has led me to learn about the intricacies of the Art Business Culture from every perspective.
When hit by a drunk driver eight years ago, I lived an out-of-body experience as I forced myself to continue working through the pain. A fear of loosing everything manifested in my body finally shutting down, and I realized how much our culture celebrates the hustle hard, real hard.
After years of practice and receiving a multitude of certifications — which include yoga (200hr-ryt), tantra meditation, pranayama and yoga nidra with Tracee Stanley and Chanti Tacoronte-Perez— I finally came to a space of softening.
The universe inside me was woken.
Stars Become Again
In healing, I found the strength of women. In healing-her, the universe brought me back to why I started We Are All Stars in the first place— to create space for myself and other stars to rise and shine.
With only 14% of women in actual collections, I have learned how women need more space to grow themselves amidst a male-centric industry. To shift the conversation, we have to design new systems; to design new systems, we must have the sustainability to see change through. Change that puts us as people first, seeing us as cosmic entities instead of valuing us only by the spaces we are seen.
What WAAS Was
What WAAS Was
We Are All Stars was a traditional art gallery.
Like my work teaches others, we build the world we want.
I wanted to design culture through the lens of an expanding galaxy, a space that celebrates the multitude and the cataclysmic events we are capable of when we come together.
Like stars, we become again.
Like stars, WAAS is defying the norm, helping others discover their voids and coming back to our intuition.
What Are We Becoming?
From Mindful Murals, Conscious Desgn, to Rest to Shine Yoga Nidra Series, our services reflect the needs our community has rejuvenation, reclamation and regeneration.