Simone Atkins

Vulnerability leads to freedom of self ✨ 📸~ @qparadise1 (Openings to book are available, you see the quality, he’s definitely worth it!) 🎵~ @elmiene 🎧~ @marshallheadphones 🔥😮‍💨

‘Remember’ 2022 One of my favorite pieces I’ve created, based on remembering different moments in our life. Whether that be sadness or happiness, you must remember the path you’re on, stay focused and never drift off too far ✨ Follow @rememberthepathplt for more inspo (stay tuned 2024👀) Available for purchase! EMAIL in BIO 😉

I recently got to teach 2nd and 3rd Grade students based off my painting ‘Oasis’ and this one stood out ☀️ It was hard for this student to complete her piece, but she finished and created the tree into herself 🥹 Afterwards she was so happy with her piece and told me: ‘I’m gonna put this in my room and look at it everyday before I go to school so I can be happy’ Just wanted to step back and reflect on this, because there is validation in purpose ONLY, and mine is to be that version of myself to any children that I encounter with @sab.creativeacademy The little black girl in me was so happy to help another 🥹☺️🌸🌳 A young surrealist 💫 For her to create something like this was so specific and touched me because if you know my art and heard me speak on it, you know that’s how I portray us as Black Women 👸🏾

The limit does not exist 💖 (Iykyk) Summer is otw and life has been upgrading itself tbh ☀️ Reading, writing, creating and being more of myself. Getting back to who lil me planned to be 🥹 It’s coming together ngl, now for the consistency and lack of procrastination..I’m working on that 🙏🏾 I love going out and taking a break, especially loved seeing all the beautiful Black people at the afters for FOMO 🔥 @fomomuseumblockparty Caught the sets Curated by @suddsuddsudd : @teejaysuave @fijiboidlo @teddycreecy @kyle.genesis The tambourine praise Break mix was my favorite moment 🙌🏾😅 & @heyymizzjones and @stephenthadream kept us lit on top of that 😮‍💨 Shoutout to the all the Alt Black girlies for their fits too 😍 More adventures and creating coming soon! @thesoulartbeautycompany @soulartbeauty.gallery @rememberthepathplt Also I will be blasting @chxrry all summer 🫶🏽💖

Black culture IS Socialism ✊🏾 The way we talk, love, dance, commune, and support is something that has always been admired by others because of its power 💫 The @gritsandeggspodcast with @deante.kyle & @big_icecup_kat was such a great experience! They brought out Charlotte’s own @mavi4mayor 🔥 All the cousins laughed, learned and we spoke on topics that focused on how we can keep building our communities up 🌆 It really solidified that I’m in the right space and going in the right direction with my own events 🙏🏾 As I’ve built @thesoulartbeautycompany the direction has always been building community and spreading knowledge, now the path is even clearer 🤞🏾 Being a village isn’t something new we started saying, it’s a culture within us that we need to keep growing 🌱 I’m finally in a space where I’m letting purpose outweigh social anxiety, so I hope you can tune in 👂🏾 @rememberthepathplt @sab.creativeacademy @thesoulartbeautycompany

As we introduce Part 2 of ‘We Bloom through Paved Roads’ we will start by speaking on the importance of film and photography 📸 The 1st event will be a viewing of an amazing film by a Black Director, that focuses on an important part of Black History! Film & Photography is such a integral part in how history is captured and we had the pleasure of working with 2 amazing artists Greg and Marcus on Part 1 last year🙏🏾 Greg is a great photographer that captured some pictures for us of places we highlight around Charlotte within our documentary 🌆 Marcus @basejeezus , IS the reason we were able to create the first part of our documentary, which just started as an idea by our director Simone @simoonnee__ ‘Our 2 Sense’ is a documentary that focuses on the growth of Charlotte and how it came to be what it is today. It also highlights major Black and Brown neighborhoods that have been taken over historically and even today. Gentrification is a closely related concept to Colonialism, in the way that it affects our communities close to us and internationally 💫 As diverse as Charlotte has become in culture, we need to focus on how we can support families here that have families across nations world wide, that are affected by atrocities🌍 The film will be extended and shown at the finale this summer ☺️ Swipe left for some BTS from last years production of the film ‘Our 2 Sense’ Guess what film you think we will be showing below 👀(winner gets a movie meal on us 😉) RSVP link coming soon, limited seating available ⛓️‍💥

Join us to experience Family Unity Day! On June 27th, from 3-6pm at The Hygge: 1026 Jay St 📍 Destiny Blue Art X SoulArtBeauty have created something special for you all to enjoy with your family and community! Through this event we will create different pieces that will allow each of you to connect with yourselves and those around you, while you explore different aspects of your imagination 💫 Each creation station will come with prompts that will join each of us together and open space for great conversation that will build community 🤞🏾 Just RSVP and we’ll see you there! Link in our BIO!

Thank you to all those that came out to support our partnering school @livelearnplay_ot Earth Day Celebration! 🌍 We had such a great time creating flower bouquets, fairy gardens, checking out all the amazing plants for the plant sale, enjoying the animal fashion show and meeting new families! Can’t wait to see what else @livelearnplay_ot has to come, follow them to keep up with their upcoming events! 👀 Shoutout to @lovemonee for coming to help show the students how to walk in their fashion show, they did so great 🥹 To those that donated thank you, we appreciate the support as we push to allow more families to have this outdoor space be accessible to them as well 🙏🏾 Being apart of @livelearnplay_ot is such an eye opener into how much going away from traditional schooling can bring value to kids development as people, not just students 🌳 We hope to see you at the next 😉

We’re excited to FINALLY announce: We Bloom through Paved Roads~ Part 2: The Audacity of Complicity! As we continue this anthropology series we will dive deeper into understanding the connections in humanity, morality & community within various cultures 🌍 This trilogy will continue to build bridges, spread knowledge, and explain how gentrification in our communities relates to colonialism, & how we can build with one another ✊🏾 Events will take place once a month through the summer: June: Private screening (movie TBA) July: Writing Workshop August: Community Arts Show We’ll kick the series off with our Private Screening of an awesome film, there will be limited seating, so get your RSVP when they drop! 👀 Stay on the lookout for all the dates and we’ll see you soon! Swipe Left for pics of last years event where we displayed work from @artbyashaki @evie_jordann @destinyblueart @brookeisfarout @qparadise1 ,debuted our film with @basejeezus ‘Our 2 Sense’, & had a panel with @ms.congo & @rajumabey located at @besocialplease 🔥

Through trying new ways to enjoy and improve life, I’ve been able to try new experiences, and show up in different spaces ✨ The KinShip Closet ‘Powerful Pastels’ by @thekrystalhall was such a great experience! Learning about what fits our body types, instead of what’s trending, really is important when finding your style 👚 She brought a room full of Black women together, we learned, played a couple games, and built conversation over fashion! Hosted @thriftponyclt new space too! 😍 Can’t wait for the next one! SN:I unintentionally matched the decor 😅🐠🧜🏾‍♀️ S/O to @idrkb3cca for the video, that lighttt! 📸

Our Founder, Simone Atkins-Bostic, was able to speak this weekend at the Hip-Hop Summit, brought by @_blakkliberation @_siriusb_ & @pslcharlotte 🎤 The purpose of her talk was informing people of the importance of the intersectionality between the arts, building community, and creating societal change 💫 In today’s world, there’s so much going on internationally that we need to create spaces that we can learn from and educate ourselves on how to rebuild our villages 🌍 The power of Hip-Hop within the Black community stems from moments in Black history like the Harlem Renaissance; where many Black painters, poets, writers, anthropologists and more emerged and uplifted Black American culture 🎨 It’s important to continue to pass along these parts of the past, so that we can reflect on the present and make the proper change for the future 🙏🏾 Being able to connect to the youth and allow them to understand that their purpose matters was the best part, and we hope to continue to be part of spaces like this more in the future ☺️ @sab.creativeacademy got to bring back out the Cuban flag, for guests to add to, from a previous Noche Cubana event with @pslcharlotte , that helped raised $1000 for medical supplies in Cuba! 🇨🇺 Overall art helps connect our understanding and allows people to understand from different perspectives visually and in the words of the amazing Nina Simone: “It is an artist duty to reflect the times”. Remember that and keep going 💪🏾

This weekend has been so fulfilling 💫 The more I step outside of my comfort zone the more comfortable life gets 😅 Thank you to @_siriusb_ @_blakkliberation and @pslcharlotte for having me speak this weekend at the Hip-Hop Summit 🙏🏾 Got to be a mini Art Professor 👩🏽‍🏫 As I continue my journey as an artist and building @sab.creativeacademy & @thesoulartbeautycompany being able to spread the importance of the arts and community is so important to me 🌍 Building bridges with organizations in the community is beautiful to see, and as long as I’m fulfilling my purpose life is good ☺️ Let’s keep building up our villages and showing up when it matters most 💜 The SoulArtBeauty Company is here and we got many things to come 📝 • @thesoulartbeautycompany @sab.creativeacademy @rememberthepathplt