WILD YAMS x ACRE, 2025. (Photo: Kate Bowen)

Aidan Anne Frierson and Talia Kimberly Wright of Chicago Pulp lead a collective paper-making workshop, 2025. (Photo: Brandy Alpha)

WILD YAMS Sprouts at the Cold Creek with Youth Facilitator Gaby Martinez (right), 2025. (Photo: Kate Bowen)

Dinnertime at ACRE, 2025. (Photo: Kate Bowen)

Andrea Yarborough (right) conducts a studio visit with Summer Coleman, 2023. (Photo: Kate Bowen)

Asher and Baby Sol hangout before lunch, 2024. (Photo: A.Martinez) 

WY SEED Resident Andrea Hill (center) shares reflections during Origin Story, a collective writing activity facilitated by Curatorial Fellow Tiffany Johnson (not pictured), inviting artists to reflect on lineage, creative practice, and the lived experiences that shape their work, ACRE 2026

Participating artists with the “Word to Your Mother” interactive installation presented as part of Not a Soft Thing: A Group Exhibition by Artist Mothers at Chicago Cultural Center, 2025–2026

Wisdom Baty introduces the history, mission, and pedagogical values of the 18-month WILD YAMS SEED residency during cohort orientation, 2024

Wisdom Baty (left) leads a libation and grounding ritual—a central practice of WILD YAMS' gatherings that help establish collective intention, reflection, and care within shared creative spaces—before a WILD YAMS artist open house in Chicago’s Greater Grand Crossing, 2024

A community gathering featuring writer and collector Sandra Ann McCollum as lead griot, sharing stories centered on intergenerational healing, community memory, and Black cultural traditions, with a meal curated by Alexandra Antoine, THE cre.æ.tive ROOM (TCR) 2023