Life Illustrated

From the venue:

Join this hands-on workshop and discover creative tools to express your family and memory through graphic illustration. Illustrator and puppetry artist Jeffrey Zwartjes will take you step by step through fun and challenging drawing exercises to stretch your drawing abilities and experiment with recording your own life on paper. Part of a series of activities bringing creative engagement to elders in memory care and their caregivers, offering self-reflection and therapeutic artistic techniques to express and share their experiences. Caregivers are encouraged to sign up, but ALL are welcome, novices and professionals alike! Participants will finish the workshop with original self-made storyboards and sketches. Bring a pen or pencil and paper – an empty sketchbook if possible. If you have colored pencils or markers, bring those as well!