Artist Talk
with Zoë Armstrong
Artist Talk: Zoë Armstrong
Saturday, May 22 | 5pm-6pm
Free | In-person or online
This Saturday, join visual artist and art therapist Dr. Zoë Armstrong for a discussion of her solo exhibition This Is How I Listen: The Art of Dyslexia.
Attend this talk in-person at Arts Underground, or online. Please register in advance.
Attend in person
Register here
Space is limited and pre-registration is required.
COVID protocols will be in place and masks are mandatory. To learn more about how we're staying safe in our facility, visit www.artsunderground.ca/covid-19
This event will take place at Arts Underground (Lower Level of the Hougen Centre, 15-305 Main St). Unfortunately there is no elevator, however a chairlift is available for those who require mobility assistance.
Attend online
About the exhibition
“I am an artist and an art therapist, and I am neurodiverse. I have been diagnosed as gifted with profound dyslexia and ADD. I process and integrate information and knowledge in a very different way, and because of how my brain works differently, I have had to find ways to adjust and compensate.
I provide art therapy with a focus on trauma, grief and loss, as well as crisis intervention. In art therapy sessions, I help clients produce artwork, which provides a different way for people to express, convey and process their emotions and experiences and to heal. While my clients are making art and sharing, I am also making art while I am listening to my clients. It is how I listen, process what I am being told, and how I connect ideas and concepts. Creating art gives me the ability to give my full attention to a client.
This exhibit is comprised of drawings I created during hundreds of art therapy sessions.”
View the exhibition at Arts Underground until Saturday, May 29. Learn more at https://www.artsunderground.ca/exhibitions/this-is-how-i-listen