Open Minds
- Sensory Friendly Workshops

This is a free half-day art workshop at Butler Gallery for neurodivergent young people.

In a calm, sensory-friendly space, we’ll explore place-making through wandering, sketching, and noticing. Together we’ll make maps, drawings, and stories, tracing how our attention drifts, zooms in, and wanders across the world, both real and imagined.

Led by artist/facilitator Ciara O’Connor Walsh, the workshop is an invitation to notice and record place in your own way. You might map a memory, draw a comic strip about daily life, or sketch the paths your imagination takes through the Butler Gallery and gardens.

At the end, we’ll bring everything together into a shared showing - an Atlas of Wandering - celebrating the unique and sometimes surprising ways neurodivergent minds sense and shape the world.

No art experience needed. All materials provided.

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from.” -Rebecca Solnit

Support people or caregivers are welcome to stay for the duration.