Free Event for Patients and Families // Fall Art Workshop with Taryn Lee
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
Fall Art Workshop with Taryn Lee
Tuesday September 26, 2023
12 - 2PM
IN PERSON
1025 Queen Street West
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About this event
Artist and educator, Taryn Lee, will be teaching a 2 hour workshop to support creativity and mindfulness.
All are welcome!
The workshop will begin with a short guided, mindfulness practice to help settle into the space.
This workshop is open to all ages and no previous art-making experience is required.
This workshop is useful for:
- Mindfulness and well-being
- Fostering connection through art making
- Community engagement
- Tactile, creative expression
All required materials will be provided on the day of the workshop. Pre-registration is required as space is limited per group.
About the facilitator
Taryn Lee is a neurodivergent artist and educator with lived experience from Oakville, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Design from Toronto Metropolitan University in Fashion Communication. Her own art practice focuses on colourful, representational figurative works, portraits and stylized fashion sketches.
She’s had experience teaching art to youth in a classroom setting and teaching two online art courses with Workman Arts. She is a Fellow of the CAMH Yale Let(s) Lead program and a longtime Workman Arts member. She’s completed CAMHs Collaborative Learning College peer support and facilitation training courses and recently completed peer support training with the Mood Disorders Society of Canada.
She believes the act of creating art in safe and encouraging community spaces builds connections, encourages mindfulness, and ignites ideas that lead towards transformations.