Sewing as a Tool to Teach Life Skills

Meet Keiona Cook, a multitalented artist. She is a Couture Fashion Designer. She creates one of a kind garments for women and little girls at her for-profit business Qe’Bella Couture. She loves to make women and little girls feel beautiful from the inside out. She has been designing and sewing since the age of six. Fashion has always been her way to uplift and empower herself and others around her.

She is a mix medium artist, mixing acrylics with African wax print fabrics and found objects. 

 

Keiona is the founder and Executive Director of Lovely’s Sewing & Arts Collective where she works with youth from all over the twin cities ages 4-16. 

 

She is an author, she self- published, illustrated and wrote, “Lovely Helps Mommy Fold the Laundry.” And last but certainly not least she is a thought-provoking motivational speaker.

 

She is a former graduate of North High school (Go Polars). She has her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design. To her core she loves connecting our communities through her work as an artist, instructor and motivational speaker. She has been advocating and working with parents and their kids in our communities for the last 20 years.

 

“When You Give Someone your Time, You’re Giving them a Moment in Your Life you can Never Get Back, so spend each Moment in time Wisely” ~ Keiona Cook