We're raising money to build a Digital Platform & Co-Work Space where Black Womxn can dream audaciously and feel supported bringing those dreams into fruition.
This is where you come in!
Help us build....
SEEN: A Digital Database and Membership Portal
Ever wish you had a 1-stop shop for Black female & femme creatives? Need to find a DP? An acupuncturist? Accountant? Someone who prints 3D cupcakes? Anything you can dream of in your wildest imagination you can source via this database. All you gotta do is join!
For multi-hyphenate, multi-passionate black female creatives, artists and healers.
community | networking | grants | coaching | educational & wellness resources
*Designed specifically to address the challenges black womxn face navigating their industries.
WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR.
Plush Armour’s inception began in 2013 as a humble handmade knitwear Etsy Shop. Since then Plush Armour has been feature numerous times across Etsy's platform and FreePeople.com. In 2020 Plush Armour was the recipient of JOANN's Minority Creative Grant Program.
Founder Chasten Harmon is an Actress, Eco-Spiritualist, and Embodiment Specialist as well as a Knitwear Designer/Fiber Artist. She grew up passionate about art in any form. She has studied the art of embodiment through singing & acting for 15+ years. She received her B.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama where she studied Grotowski, Lucid Body, Viewpoints, The Alexander Technique, Yoga and Clown in addition to 8 years of dance training. With her background in acting and storytelling she is deeply and profoundly invested in the human experience. She has graced the stage & screen in a myriad of projects in Theatre, Film & Television since graduating from Yale School of Drama in 2015, during which she founded Plush Armour.
As her simultaneous passions for knitwear and studying the art of humanity through storytelling grew... so did her passion for healing trauma in the black community. In 2020 Plush Armour launched it’s expansion into, not only a knitwear line, but a wellness brand offering Embodiment Workshops and Healing Circles for the BIPOC community. She is currently completing her trauma informed embodied somatic healing certificate program with The Embody Lab to deepen her practice within marginalized communities.
WHERE WE ARE GOING!
We have the space! Yay! We just need the fixings!!!!
Your generous support will help us with...
Designing & building our outdoor co-work spa in Los Angeles, CA which will include:
workspace | community garden | greenhouse | outdoor shower | sauna | soaking tubs
We're dedicating 20K from this campaign to launch our inaugural grant program designed to support Black female & femme creatives!!!!!
This program will launch in 2022 when 4 recipients will be selected to receive 5K towards their creative projects. Grant recipients will be selected by a TBA committee.
*Buying into the Membership Portal gives you access to apply for grants.
PLUSH ARMOUR is Nature's Arsenal.
Our creative expression is our greatest salve. It's time to dream a new world. It's time to pick up our Plush Armour. Our softness, pleasure, play, vibrancy, creativity, curiosity, imagination and our sense of wonder. It’s time to tap into natures Arenal in order to vision and grow a new world where Black female creatives can be seen, supported, safe, and free.
I thank you for your support in this endeavor with the deepest of gratitude. This is my most audacious dream and I'm so excited to bring it to fruition with you.
*Stay tuned for more yummy rewards including Plush Armour Merch, Discounts for Plush Armour Knitwear, Exclusive One-of-a-Kind Services/Offers and more tangible opportunities to help us grow our dreaming space!
“Empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community”
-Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
