Hello – I’m Shawna Tavsky, an interdisciplinary artist, therapist, and creative consultant.
My work explores perception, attention, and inner experience through artmaking and reflective practice. Arte Soma grows from this work as a creative learning space centered on presence, curiosity, and perceptual inquiry.
A creative learning space grounded in perception, attention, and lived experience.
Arte Soma brings together artmaking, reflective practice, and sensory inquiry to explore how we notice, interpret, and relate to experience. It is a place for slowing down, working with attention, and engaging creativity as a way of thinking.
Arte Soma is currently unfolding through:
- short perceptual prompts and fragments
- group-based creative labs and learning formats
- limited beta offerings opening soon
Arte Soma Notes
Occasional notes from my studio and practice with early access to new offerings.
Inner Worlds
An online creative lab in perception, attention, and the inner life.
Working with drawing, writing, photography, and sensory practice, Inner Worlds invites an attentive relationship to experience — where perception, expression, and reflection inform one another.
[ Coming Soon ]
Consulting
Creative Guidance
One-to-one orientation for adults navigating attention, perception, and complex inner experience.
Sessions focus on understanding how you think and work, rather than fixing behavior or optimizing performance. Grounded in reflective inquiry. Not therapy or coaching.
Portraits
In Mexico City
I create portraits in my home studio through an attentive, collaborative process that values time, presence, and subtlety. Sessions move at a slower pace, allowing stillness and movement to shape both the experience and the portrait.
SELECTED PROJECTS
In Between
An ongoing portrait and drawing series grounded in presence, perception, and the threshold between inner experience and appearance.
The Woman in the Film
A literary work in progress – a novel that emerged from an unfinished art film, shaped by sketches, notes, and memory. The manuscript is currently in revision.
Say Hello!
Whether you have a question, an idea, or simply want to connect, send me a note below.