Grand Opening February 25, 2023!
About Us
Tola Tifase
Textile Artist, Iyanifa, Oya, Obatala, Egbe, Egungun & Osun Priestess. Style Influencer & Community Activist.
Owner of Tola's Creations Botanica & Cultural Center.
Tifase Ifatola is an Englewood native who has always had a love for the arts. As a child she was involved in theater, music, dancing, and modeling.
As an adult, world travel, tracing her ancestry, initiation and studying various spiritual systems is her passion. These avenues allowed her to find her authentic flow in life and connect to people, particularly from a "cultural and spiritually sound" standpoint. Tola has a mixed heritage that has allowed her to learn and initiate into various spiritual systems, concentrating on Ifa studies.
Now, this self employed mom truly realizes the power of intentional youth-directed programming that encourages artistic expression and being spiritually grounded. She's particularly invested in the positive esteem-building power that such programming can have when fused with cultural expressions that reflect inner-city youth. Tifase believes in providing "Chances to turn tragedy into triumph."
While at NIU's Center for Inner City Studies, Tifase studied the importance of solving social justice issues in communities of color. Currently she travels, networks and manages her businesses at home and abroad, from locations like Miami, New Orleans, Atlanta and New York all the way to Nigeria. All of this has played a major role in expanding her knowledge about African traditions and the culture of the diaspora. "When you lack funds, it forces you to create you own magic." Tifase taught herself how to become a seamstress and she attended cosmetology school. Now? She integrates African culture into fashion and helps others heal through Traditional African Spirituality.
But that's not all. Her compassion for children motivates her to create and tell stories through her textile art. She collaborates with various artists from all over Africa, providing them exposure and positive financial opportunities. Tifase's designs create a sense of pride for people of color. "When children can walk into a home and see art that looks like them and learn about creativity through the history of their people, it's rewarding."
Currently Tifase is currently managing her boutique & cultural center. Programming goals include African culture, etiquette, artistic expression, meditation, family wellness and lectures.
Wrap your crown in style
Turn heads with the many colors and patterned head wraps made with Ankara fabric imported from Africa.
Bring African Beauty inside your home
Allow me to accent your home and liven up office space with beautiful colors and artworks that represent African culture.
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Back home
In the Yoruba culture we are called Arelagbayi, which is similar to a guild or group of ancestral woodcarvers. This is handed down from family member to family member, with each son or daughter learning their craft from the hands and mouths of our revered parents and ancestors in the spiritual realms. Their Yoruba ancestors have walked for centuries in the forests of Osogbo in Osun State, Nigeria, searching for the wood which speaks to us, that will become a religious object for use in our traditions and rituals.
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