Shawna Tavsky
Art Practice • Creative Education
My work as an artist and educator is shaped by clinical experience in art psychotherapy, an MSc in Body Psychology, and ten years directing an arts education center in Mexico City.
A late diagnosis of AuDHD (Autism + ADHD) has become a major influence on my work, pushing it toward practice-based education and inquiry — attention, perception, and how creative practice intersects with the attention economy, neurodiversity, and collective well-being. This is the thinking behind Apertura — courses, workshops, and resources exploring attention and perception through writing, drawing, photography, and other creative practices.
Portraiture
Portrait sessions take place in my home studio in Mexico City. A quiet moment of presence, authenticity, and being seen.
Portraiture
Portrait sessions take place in my home studio in Mexico City. A quiet moment of presence, authenticity, and being seen.
Writing
Stories Untold
“She centered herself in front of the mirrored wall, noting the company of a once vibrant ruby sofa behind her. It had been loved, and forgotten over the years. Guided by her slender reflection in the mirror, her bare feet firmly positioned on the cool wooden floor, she aimed her attention to the language of movement finding its way through her long arms, graceful hands, and delicately aging fingers. Although the song of the cello took residence in her core, the dance, she felt, was in her hands.”
A short story published in Beyond Words Magazine, Scars Anthology, 2025
The Woman in the Film
Katya locks herself in her apartment for seven days to finish the script for an art film: a portrait of a self she wants to leave behind. Dark memories surface. She finds herself on fragile ground, struggling to find her way through the unreal and the true.
A short novel in the works. Follow in IG
Essays
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