Mother-Daughter Portrait Workshop with Liz McCurdy Therapeutic Art

Mother-Daughter Portrait Workshop

Please note only one ticket is needed per pair: Mother/Caregiver, and a youth age 11 and up.

Mother-daughter relationships are important bonds that experience many emotions, challenges, and successes through the adolescent years.  Enjoy a playful couple of hours connecting with each other as you create abstract portraits of you mother/daughter.  The workshop will begin with playful creative exploration as we warm up to blind contour drawing of your family member.  Final touches will be added to your portraits with watercolour and words of loving kindness. This workshop is for any mother/daughter duo regardless of your creative perception. Making lasting memories together.

Note: Mother/daughter is used loosely, any female identified caregiver and female identified youth is welcome to participate.

All materials will be provided.

About Your Instructor:

Liz McCurdy provides a supportive, no stress, creative experience for individuals who want to focus energy on caring for their emotional health.  Experience has taught Liz that it is often easier for individuals to express and care for themselves through art-based work regardless of how they perceive their creative ability.  Liz provides opportunities for self-exploration through a creative process that invites curiosity, expression, and emotional nourishment.  While she works with a range of materials in her practice, her preferred mediums are; watercolour, woody’s, micron pens, coloured pencils, DIY collage paper, and magazines.

A number of years ago Liz was a lead caseworker on a high-profile restorative justice case that left her feeling emotionally drained and burnt out.  Mark making and creative expression became a huge part of her healing process.  This was the beginning of Liz’s journey towards gaining a greater knowledge and understanding of mark making as a tool to help nourish and care for ourselves.

There is a stigma attached to putting focus our mental health and Liz wants to help normalize this through playful creative experiences.  You don’t need to feel extreme emotional stress to benefit from an art-based therapeutic process.  Liz believes that when take time to intentionally care of our emotional health then we are able to more effectively show up as our most authentic self.

Liz has over 20 years experience working in the social service field for organizations like Second Story Women’s Centre and South Shore Community Justice Society.  During this time, working in an emotionally draining field, art has been an effective outlet for expression and self care.  Liz’s education background includes a Therapeutic Arts Masters Practitioner certificate from the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy, Child and Youth Care degree, and trauma informed training.