OUR STORY
Ancestral Arts is a community school whose mission to to empower Ancestral Reclamation and Ecological Connection through the honoring traditional Folk, Indigenous, and Herbal Craft Ways. Our work serves to prioritize marginalized communities with a focus on QT2s+/ BIPOC relatives.
History
Our school was founded in Oakland with a vision of creating an educational space centered on folks of the global majority where all backgrounds felt welcome to come together, share their herbal knowledge, and ancestral medicine.
After a 2020-induced hiatus, we relaunched as hybrid-virtual / in-person in 2023 with our Herbal Certification Program 9-month training returned with 42 students! New seeds planted and under new Stewardship, we are growing our programming to offer comprehensive clinical apprenticeship 3 year program, and continuing education into the future for herbalists of all levels.
Into the Future
In 2024, we moved our operations to Los Angeles proper as we endeavor to build the first clinical herbalist training program in Southern California. With a broadened arts focus, programming reflecting ancestral crafts such as natural dyeing, basketweaving, broom making, bookbinding, and more will color the new era of Ancestral Arts.
Join us in our mission to connect to spirit through ecology and ancestral craft.
