Welcome to Sugarfoots™
Sugarfoots is a privately owned company committed to helping young people of all ages grow and mature through various artistic mediums that celebrate culture and diversity. Our anchor product is a renowned child-safe, multi-ethnic rag doll, handcrafted in three natural shades; cocoa, ginger, and cinnamon. We are complemented by a children’s book series based on folktales from cultures around the world. Our mission is sustained by a performing arts summer camp for youth that sets the pace among competitors, inspiriting the imagination through creative storytelling, song and dance.
Barbara EL Mosima
Barbara EL Mosima is a graduate of Howard University’s Drama Department, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and has also taught at the Duke Ellington School for the Performance Arts. She is an accomplished actress, comedienne, playwright, author and storyteller and has performed throughout the Washington metropolitan area and the East Coast.
She has performed storytelling workshops for the Girl Scouts of America, and the Outreach Children’s Theatre Company’s touring production of The Golden Journey and Interact, a children’s touring production throughout the Washington metropolitan area. With this rich blend of theatrical talents, Ms. Wilson brings to the art of storytelling a unique fusion of improvisation, movement and comic overture. She has worked with celebrity artists such as Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and Patti Labelle.
She is a dedicated and committed performer and delights audiences wherever her path may lead her. Ms. Wilson founded Sugarfoots in 1992, a company which designs cultural soft-sewn rag dolls, created in the three natural shades of Cocoa, Ginger and Cinnamon. In 2009 she debuted Sugarfoots Performing Arts Summer Camp; geared for ages from 5 through 13. She has authored three children’s book which are adapted annually into a stage production for the performing arts camp. She has been featured in The Washington Post, numerous local news broadcasts and thrice in Essence Magazine.
DOLLS
Our Signature Rag Dolls
"CELEBRATING DIVERSITY ONE FOOT AT A TIME."
—Barbara El Mosima
BOOKS
Our Books
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Books
Sugarfootn’ in the South with Brer Rabbit – “How Handclapping got Started in the Church”
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Tattle-Tales Book Series
Sugarfoots Tattle-Tales Series is adapted from folktales from around the world. During our annual performing arts summer camp program, the book series is adapted into a stage production with a dinner theatre performance that is open to the community.
Storytelling





