WHAT: How Brains Create Meaning through Art and Narrative presentation

We did it!

WHERE: Paragon Gallery, 815 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217

WHEN: Saturday, May 20, 2:00 – 4:00pm

Join Jeff Leake and his colleague Neuroscientist Dr. Bill Griesar for a NWNoggin workshop “How Brains Create Meaning through Art and Narrative,” Saturday, May 20, 2023, 2 – 4 pm. Our focus is on narrative and art and how they create the stories (and the brains!) that make us who we are. 

What is a narrative? What is a story? What is a schema, or a frame of reference, or set of expectations, predictions, emotions and biases based on our individual experiences?

Where does it come from? How do these personal experiences shape our brains, including what we remember, what we attend to (and what we ignore), and how we react? How might this change, and what do we discover through making and viewing art? Where in the brain does all this happen?

A presentation on the neuroscience of how our brains create meaning through narrative will be followed by hands-on art activities and brain specimens to observe.

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
2. Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
3. Sami Wagner, PSU
4. Martin Lembke, PSU
5. Kadi Rae Smith, PSU
6. Cameron Mcgrew, PSU
7. Andy Ng, PSU