Co-Created Community Art Series: Celebrating Neurodiversity

Join artist and educator, Taryn Lee, to co-create a community art project in celebration of Neurodiversity Awareness Week 2025.

Over the course of 6 sessions, you and the other participants will think, plan, and create a community art piece out of textiles, fabrics, and other materials for display in March 2025.

Co-creation allows for all participants to contribute to the ideation and creation of any given project.

Join us for this unique art-making and community building experience!

Session 1: November 19th 12 - 2 PM

• Meet Taryn and the other participants
• Learn about the materials and co-creative art process
• Talk about the topic we are working on and the goals of the project
• Decide on three possible projects to work on

Session 2: December 17th 12 - 2 PM

• Bring your own materials that you are comfortable letting other people work with
• Create of a community pool of materials
• Choose one of the three possible projects
• Get started!

Session 3: January 21st 12 - 2 PM

• Continue creating

Session 4: February 18th 12 - 2 PM

• Continue creating

Session 5: March 18th 12 - 2 PM

• Continue creating
• Wrap up the project

Session 6: April 22nd 12 - 2 PM

• Display and debrief the co-creative process and what we've learned together

About the artist and facilitator, Taryn Lee:

Taryn Lee (she/her) 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 using mixed medias. She’s had experience teaching art to youth in a classroom setting and teaching 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 peer support training with the Mood Disorders Society of Canada. She is an Active Listener for Workman Arts online and in person events. She believes the act of creating art in safe and encouraging community spaces builds connections, encourages mindfulness, and ignites ideas that lead towards transformations.

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