45th Annual Black Doll Show - Sower of Seeds: Creating a New Tomorrow

We are excited to announce The 45th Annual Black Doll Show!

December 13, 2025 - February 14, 2026

Opening Reception

Saturday, December 13, 3-6 pm  

Curated in collaboration with Heather Hilliard Bonds, Sower of Seeds: Creating a New Tomorrow draws inspiration from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, where change is both truth and teacher. Through handmade and collected Black dolls and other artwork, this year’s exhibition reflects on transformation amid uncertainty; raids, displacement, fire, flood, and renewal. Like the Earthseed philosophy, Sower of Seeds asks what new worlds can emerge when our care, imagination, and resilience take root. Artists of many media engage in representing and reflecting Butler’s Parables through our own experiences. Each art piece becomes a vessel of hope, a reminder that all we touch, we change; and in changing, we create tomorrow.

Doll Making Workshops

December 20, 2025

January 10, 2026

February 7, 2026

**February 12, 2026 (Adults 18 years and older only)

Other Events

Land Safety/ Land Trust/ Land Back - Retreat | January 24, 2026

DIY Preservation and Archiving Workshop | January 31, 2026

Offsite:

Side Street Projects - 

Zorthian  Ranch, Altadena

Doll Workshop | January 17, 2026