Well Come!
My name is Nicole Maileen Woo. I am an artist, mama and starseedrising reclaiming wholeness through beauty and connection. I am lovingly devoted to nurturing creativity, community, and collective liberation.
Rooted here on Earth in the Hawaiian Kingdom and shaped by my journey as a single mother, educator, and spiritual practitioner, my work lives at the intersection of art and spirit. I create visual and embodied experiences that honor emotion, ancestry, intuition, and the earth. Whether through painting, ceremony, or dialogue, I invite people into brave, compassionate spaces where healing and transformation can take root.
With over two decades of experience in education and community work, I bring a grounded presence to every offering—whether it's a piece of art, an energy healing session, a workshop, or public speaking engagement. Each of these offerings emerges from the same source: a deep belief in our shared humanity and the power of creativity to restore and reimagine our world.
My art practice is intuitive, process-oriented, and often includes elements of nature, movement, and storytelling. My healing work is informed by my certification in Integrative Quantum Medicine and years of spiritual study. My facilitation and speaking are shaped by lived experience, humility, and a desire to uplift voices, especially those of women, mothers, and marginalized communities.
I welcome you to explore, connect, and co-create with me.
Let us remember together: we are all artists, we are all healers, we are all sacred.
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Nicole Maileen Woo is a multi-dimensional artist, educator, and certified Integrative Quantum Medicine Practitioner devoted to the well-being of people and planet by reclaiming wholeness through art, spirit, and radical imagination. She brings over two decades of experience guiding creative transformation in classrooms, nonprofit organizations, sacred circles, and intergenerational communities.
Nicole holds a B.A. in Art from The George Washington University and studied photography at the Beijing Film Institute. Her path has included roles as public school art educator, curriculum designer, healing guide, and facilitator for organizations like the Smithsonian Associates, Wild Mama Voices, Wisdom Circles Oceania, The Popolo Project, and the Alvin Ailey Foundation. Her artistic practice—rooted in mixed media, ancestral wisdom, and Black liberation—centers beauty as medicine, art as prayer, and imagination as a revolutionary force.
Nicole is especially called to collaborate with those dismantling harmful systems while birthing new, life-affirming ones. Whether she’s creating curriculum, painting a commission, or designing a ritual for healing, Nicole builds from the soul outward—with vision, love, and reverence.
To work with Nicole is to step into a remembering—of wholeness, possibility, and sacred power.
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I am the daughter of Veronica, the granddaughter of Elsie and Ellen, the great-granddaughter of women who dared to birth futures from blood memory and bone truth. My lineage flows from the Black women of the Diaspora, the original people of Turtle Island, and the Wu women of China—diviners, dreamers, dancers of spirit.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in the 1980s and ‘90s—amidst the crack cocaine epidemic, graffiti-covered subways, corner bodegas, double dutch games, and the golden era of hip hop. Sirens and shouldered boomboxes were our soundtrack. Style, rhythm, and resistance were in the air calling forth black liberation. We were children of survival and soul, of dreams born between housing projects and block parties. We knew how to make beauty out of anything.
In the middle of that wild and sacred chaos, I stood one day in my bedroom, completely still, and knew: I Am. That moment of awareness was the beginning of my spiritual journey.
Catholic school introduced me to the Divine Feminine via Mother Mary and the healing power of art. Though I drank the chalice of shame and guilt, I also saw through the contradictions and walked toward something deeper, freer. My spiritual education became self-directed—fueled by longing and guided by dreams.
That longing led me to West African drum circles, women’s circles, Kemetic wisdom, Taoist wisdom, tai chi, Earth medicine, unschooling, Ifa initiation, sacred dance, vegan kitchens, somatic healing, nonviolent communication, energy healing and candlelit altars. Each teaching revealed forgotten parts of myself.
Migration, motherhood, grief, and divorce became sacred rites of passage. I turned to art when I didn’t have words. I turned to spirit when I didn’t have strength. I turned to community when I didn’t have direction.
Today, I walk with Love as my master teacher. I am called to integrate the unknown and unknowable, the space between seen and unseen. And recognize and remember all of it as holy.
I am a Black Mama, Artist, Dancer, Hearth Keeper, Matriarch-in-Training, and Devotee of the Resacralization of Life.
I do not seek to fix. I am here to remember.
I am here to love.
I am here to midwife a new earth.
