Art & Mind: Reflections of Women, Femmes and Our Mental Health During COVID

“Art & Mind” will showcase the creative works and stories of women/femme-identified people who live with various conditions, including anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. Participants will illustrate their life experiences through music, dance, talks, drama, and visual art and show how they navigated Covid-related anxiety, isolation, and life change.

This virtual event will feature Amaranthia Sepia, a mental health advocate, comic artist, illustrator, and character designer of African-American and Caribbean (Bajan) descent. Her mediums are focused on ink and digital art. She is also a budding art coordinator with a focus on minority inclusive, unconventional activist artworks. Sepia was previously a lead organizer/art coordinator and the lead on media outreach for the grassroots collective ARTivism Initiative, and was an artist and collaborator for LA mental health non-profit, The Painted Brain, for their disability art show, “Discovering a Place for Us.” Her advocacy includes using art to raise awareness about mental…