More about your teacher:

Elissa Weinzimmer is an award-winning vocal health educator, presence coach, and the founder of Voice Body Connection. After suddenly losing her own voice at age 21, Elissa began studying the mechanics of voice. Over time she developed a unique, concrete approach that empowers performers, leaders, and speakers to optimize their voices and share them more authentically.

Elissa's clients include Broadway stars, television personalities, politicians, and CEOs. She has led workshops for WeWork, Equinox, Microsoft, eBay, Instacart, and more, and has been featured in Thrive Global, Healthline, SheKnows, Adweek, and Kajabi.

Elissa earned her MFA in Theatre Voice Pedagogy from the University of Alberta. Her teaching also draws upon her extensive training in Fitzmaurice Voicework®️, Hatha yoga, and Body-Mind Centering®️.

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More about the Lateral Expansion exhibit:

Curated by Audra Lambert, Lateral Expansion brings together five artists whose work speculates on the multiplicity of identities that women inhabit through multidisciplinary approaches, sublime explorations of representation and gesture and visceral approaches to surface texture. From painting to fiber art and sculptural collages, these artists embrace the ideologies of lateral expansion: taking up space and claiming power through a lateral expansion both metaphorically and literally in artworks on view. 

Works in textile art, paintings, works on paper and multidisciplinary formats exhibited in Lateral Expansion offer new expansive formats through which to consider the role that women command in contemporary art.  The visitor is invited to contemplate the means by which women artists author their own narratives, re-examine loaded histories, exert physical presence and reinforce the vibrant yet disparate tales embedded in the contemporary practices of woman-identified artists.