Lindsay Horne is an artist, designer, and researcher working at the intersection of neuroarts, creative practice, and sustainability. (I.e. she mostly can be found in a pair of Stoggles, her favourite STATE jumper, and some Blundstones. Barefoot when safely appropriate.)
For the past eleven years she has worked with a small spatial planning firm as a contractor for the Department of Defense and alongside that has designed and facilitated applied neuroarts programs, organized large-scale participatory public art events, and exhibited installation and visual work at the Chrysler Museum of Art and Hermitage Museum & Gardens. Currently she is working to braid these worlds.
Lindsay’s recent work includes IMPROV-ing Emotional Wellness, a three-part community workshop series co-created with licensed clinicians with Watermark Psychological Services, designed at the intersection of improvisational theater and clinical mental health practice. Drawing on polyvagal theory and the neuroscience of play and co-regulation, the program created accessible community-embedded pathways to emotional well-being outside clinical settings. She also organized the Hague Parade, an inaugural floating art exhibition on Norfolk's Hague inlet, bringing together nine artist teams, two institutional partners, and hundreds of community members in a public experience rooted in relationship to place and water.
Her research practice is informed by trauma-informed and somatic frameworks, applied neuroarts methodology, and the neuroscience of play and creativity. She holds a B.S. in Sustainable Business and Design and has completed certificate training through the Trauma Research Foundation, the Slow Factory Foundation, and Google's UX Design Foundations program.