Facilitation
I am an animator, multimedia artist, and improv performer with a decade of experience leading creative groups; including five years of live drawing on stage. My purpose as a facilitator is to help creative teams unlock ideas, bridge art with collaborative problem-solving, and share a joy for improvisation as a pathway to connection.
My purpose as a facilitator is to bring visual thinking and creativity into the room: helping creative teams unlock the ideas already within them, bridging art and design with collaborative problem-solving, and sharing joy for improvisation as a pathway to connection. Creativity is a muscle that can be trained by stepping into the unknown.
Voltage Control Certified
Along with standard principles and practices, the curriculum at Voltage Control helped me to explore my strengths and offerings as a facilitator. I am honored to be one of the first cohorts to be certified with the endorsement from the Higher Learning Commission.
What I Do
Visual Storytelling
As an animator and live-drawing performer, I think in symbolic metaphors to translate complex ideas visually. Making connections and teasing out broader themes with images provides additional points of collaboration and understanding.
Adapt in the Moment
A decade of improv performance has made real-time adaptation second nature. I invite people into play, encourage enthusiasm, and create the conditions where there are no ‘wrong’ answers
Design Engaging Experiences
I approach session design like a story; with a clear arc, emotional beats, and character growth. I carefully sequence activities to build energy, trust, and create a container to encourage play & creativity
Make Your Mark
Improv Drawing Workshop
An empty page is a lot like an empty stage. Many people who want to draw are stopped by self-consciousness and comparison. Even working artists and performers can become rigid, disconnected from spontaneity.
This two-day workshop is designed for improvisors of all artistic skill levels to foster thinking visually and explore the vibrant relationship between drawing and performing. Participants will learn emerging improvisational drawing formats and collaborate to design their own novel format.
Takeaways
Simple drawing tips, discussion, and visual exercises build upon each other to strengthen confidence, encourage play, and highlight the value of drawing as an experience.
Skill growth
Participants of all drawing abilities leave with practical techniques for clearer, more confident mark-making
Appreciation
Each participant experiences drawing as a live, relational act; not a final product
understanding
Participants understand how drawings can generate scenes, and how scenes can generate drawings
Progression
Confidence in both drawing and improvising increases in a progression from solo drawings to group performance
Find out how I can help facilitate or graphically record your next gathering!
