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"Reaching Back to Wisdom" was chosen as the Featured Art for Penn Center's Heritage Days Festival 2019.

The Origin of all Kingdoms is surrounded by her loved ones as she is swollen with sacred life. Her family beholds the wisdom of generations, the experiences of their souls and the blessings of their hearts. A hand quilted blanket will pass on the secrets of freedom. The shooting stars are the ancestors as the guiding light to remember who she is. The traditional Sankofa bird upon her womb symbolizes that while a child may move forward in life, he/she should look back to say thank you to the family & ancestors. Wisdom propels the Life of Knowledge.

Artist name is now "Sabreee". Business name is now "Sabreee's Gullah Art Gallery" Patricia Elaine Sabree, {formally Patricia Elaine McFadden} is the product of Lake City, a small country town carved from the dark earth, located in the low country of South Carolina. Lake City is known for its amazing crop raising, dusky flatland, muddy-swamp wetland, endless fishing, surplus of snakes, and the Gullah people culture. Even though now divorced, Sabree kept her married name, "Sabree" due to its meaning, "one who preseveres until the job is done," and the connection it gave to her two lovely daughters- Faridah and Ameenah. Sabree and her fourteen siblings spent most of their youth working on a farm. Their parents were loyal sharecroppers who...