Shawna Tavsky is an interdisciplinary artist, therapist, and creative consultant with over twenty years of experience working across artmaking, education, and reflective practice. Her work explores how we see, sense, and make meaning through creative processes.

Alongside her artistic work, Shawna completed advanced studies in somatic psychology and art psychotherapy, developing a neuroaffirming, trauma-informed understanding of attention, and inner experience. This background informs her educational approach, shaping how perception, embodiment, and attention are explored through creative practice.

Arte Soma brings these strands together as a creative learning space grounded in perception, presence, and lived experience. Through artmaking and perceptual practice, Shawna invites participants to engage creativity as a way of thinking, noticing, and relating — rather than performance or self-improvement