Nicole Maileen Woo is a multi-dimensional artist, educator, certified Integrative Quantum Medicine Practitioner and wedding officiant devoted to the well-being of people and planet by reclaiming wholeness through artistic expression, spiritual practice, 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.

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 women of the African 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 an Artist, Mama, 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.