About

I am Sharayna—an entrepreneur who has created pathways at the intersection of creativity and business, a cultural worker committed to world-building that centers community ingenuity, and a multidisciplinary performance artist exploring memory and regeneration.

My work emerges at the intersection of strategy, and transformation, shaping ecosystems where art, community, and sustainability converge. Rooted in a restorative praxis, I cultivate spaces that foster innovation and collective growth, designing accessible fluid structures that connect people and resources.

As an artist, I move through archival research, choreography, film, and assemblage to illuminate the temporal journeys of the diaspora—past, present, and unseen. My creative practice informs every facet of my leadership, embracing the unknown as a space for discovery.

I have dedicated my work to creating ecosystems that empower creatives, foster intergenerational knowledge exchange, and reimagine sustainable artistic futures. As a founding director of the Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network (BCAN) at Maryland Institute College of Art, I helped shape a framework that resourced over 2400+ Baltimore-based artists, providing them with the tools to scale their practice and build mindful enterprises from 2018-2024. Through Muse 360, an institution I founded in 2004, I provided space to cultivate radical artistic development through civic engagement, interdisciplinary training, and diasporic youth study abroad. In 2017, I launched Necessary Tomorrows, a platform that uplifts Black and POC artists by integrating advocacy, curation, and funding—creating space for bold, transformative creative work.