Open Studio (Nurture Tier)

We meet twice a month and it’s a place where you can bring your work, questions, ideas and reflections while also being inspired by what your peers are up to.

What’s Included:

1. Two Live 60-Minute Open Studio Sessions Each Month
Bring your work, questions, drafts, offers, pricing dilemmas or stuck points. These sessions are lightly facilitated, spacious and responsive — no new curriculum, no prep, no pressure.

2. Show / Tell / Ask Format 
You decide how you want to participate each session:

  • Show your work and receive grounded feedback
  • Tell us where you’re at and be witnessed
  • Ask a clear question and get direct support

Come as you are. Silence is participation too.

3. Access to Session Recordings
Missed a session? Prefer to listen later?
All recordings are archived so you can return when you're ready.

4. Discord Community (Private, Moderated)
A shared space to:

  • Ask questions between sessions
  • Share wins and experiments
  • Request feedback
  • Find accountability or study partners across time zones

No algorithm. Just us and relational support.

5. Optional Add-On to Any Seeda School Course
Open Studio pairs seamlessly with the Seeda School Library and your personal Black feminist study practice. Use this container to integrate, apply and metabolize what you’re learning — in real time.

REFUND AND CANCELLATION POLICY: There are no refunds after you have enrolled into Open Studio but you can cancel your membership at any time! We aim to practice with you for as long as it feels desirable and accessible. 🕯️

Image: R.S.V.P. activated by Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger at Pearl C. Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, May 1977, Photo: Harmon Outlaw. Source: "Embodied Reciprocity"

What Seeda School Alumni Are Saying:

Ayana has created a thriving Black feminist counterpublic that combines the speculative imaginary with the power of presence and action to manifest worlds that exist outside of and beyond oppressive systems, reminding us that we don’t have to cut off any parts of ourselves in the work. As a participant over the past year, I have found that accepting Ayana’s invitation into communal worldbuilding has completely transformed the way I think about both engaging with and funding my creative practice. Their gentle invocation around returning consistently to our work to build a nurturing cadence of outreach via the weekly dispatch, with its focus on curiosity and research, as well as their guidance on developing an income-generating offer has shown me the value of cultivating a creative ecosystem where all parts feed into and nourish each other. I came for the emphasis on grounding our art in interdisciplinary wildness and opacity. I stay for the soft weave of community that grounds us all together in what Alexis Pauline Gumbs calls “an interdependent ceremony.” Ayana and my fellow worldbuilders are holding each other through this time of escalating genocide and rising fascism worldwide and together we are creating full universes of possibility to, in Christina Sharpe’s words, “imagine otherwise.” Join us?

Elliott Silverstein, writer of "Archive Fever Dream" on Substack

Seeda School is the most nourishing, electric, brilliant, inspired, held space I have been lucky enough to be a part of. I entered the retreat from the depths of a creative winter, and Ayana built the container for a true and revelatory spring. She has architected the balance of structure, rigorous tools, juicy inspiration, accountability, and relational support that will help you (finally) recognize and birth the thing that has been calling you. And more than that, Seeda is the invitation to manifest the luscious version of a life you didn’t know you were allowed to have.

Olivia Vagelos writer of "Designing For Feelings" on Substack

Words cannot express enough how grateful I am for the blessing that is both Ayana and Seeda School. Enrolling in the retreat was an immediate yes for me — where the weekly meditations and facilitations from Ayana felt like sacred invitations to return — return to community, return to self, return to Spirit, return to our gardens. Like The Artist's Way, but through a decolonial Black feminist lens, I continue to find Seeda School and its Retreat as an evergreen gift and artistic nourishment that, as a result, enriches the tending of my spiritual and literary practice — The Conflicted Womanist.

Chinyere Erondu writer of "The Conflicted Womanist" on Substack

Ayana's excavating groundwork reminds us that the ability to float already resides in the power of our expansive breath. If we can dream it, then it is safe to trust that it is already done for not just ourselves but folks dreaming of the work we are producing. The world you desire to build already exists within you & the worldbuilding framework helped me realize that our work can support so many others if we break through the fertile ground where we stand alone. In fact, through the worldbuilding framework, Ayana facilitates that we are never truly alone because the Sankofa sensibility circularly connects us to our past, present, & future. If you're ready to invite folks to wade into the sea of your worldbuilding & transformative offer then sign up! Trust that when it rains it pours & your abundant desires will grow & be witnessed by the outstretched limbs of folks in the Seeda School community with you.

Kay Brown, writer of "Assemblage: Baby's Breath" on Substack

$237.00 USD

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