Michele Anne-Marie Dickson (she/her/they) is a disabled self-taught multi-disciplinary visual and literary artist. She works in a variety of media, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, along with pen & ink, acrylic, watercolour, pastels, photography and mixed-media. Michele identifies as someone with lived experience of mental illness, chronic illness, and a history of trauma. Michele’s visual and literary arts explore themes of dignity and abandonment, failure, uniqueness, hopefulness, joy, dissolution, care, and abstraction.
“The Sync Leadership program will enable me to foster greater belonging and inclusion within my arts practice, and will provide me with the leadership qualities to create an equitable and compassionate presence for those of all abilities, which allows me a greater amount of informed experience when focusing on disability, ableism, and the multifaceted societal nuances that they take.”
