Can U Hear ART EXPERIENCE
AN IMMERSIVE ART EXHIBIT EXPLORING MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS
Brandy Michele Adams: A Journey of Healing, Transformation, and Art
Brandy Michele Adams is a neurodivergent, transdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on self-healing, radical care, and the reimagining of perception through contemporary art. Adams' immersive installations, grounded in sound, somatic movement, meditation, and imagination, emerge from a deeply personal story of survival: a spinal cord injury caused by a drunk driver left her bedridden for two years. In that stillness, she learned to listen deeply to her body, beginning and returning to a lifelong exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and mental health.
Adams lives with Bipolar disorder, PTSD, ADHD, dyslexia, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, hearing impairment, and anxiety. These conditions have shaped not only her art but her way of being—revealing a truth she now invites others to explore: what we hear profoundly impacts how we process life. Her ongoing collaboration with surgeon Dr. Marc Dean has further illuminated the intersections of invisible disability, mental health, and embodied knowledge.
She is sharing her latest project, Can U Hear. It is a 30-day sensory experience and exhibition that guides visitors through the question: Do we feel? How do we feel? Through sculptural environments, including a labyrinth of hand-poured ceramic ears and The Shimmer Room—a cloud-like space where you can dream and play like a child—Adams offers spaces of stillness, reflection, and sensory engagement. Stucco-based paintings evoke the emotional density of healing and invite viewers to soften and embrace REST as a revolutionary force.
From a curatorial lens, Adams challenges institutional norms, centering lived experience over theory, accessibility over exclusivity, and process over product. Can U Hear also exists beyond the gallery through digital activations and archival strategies—expanding access, preserving community dialogue, and embodying care in practice.
In a world of burnout and noise, Brandy Michele Adams offers something rare: a brave, intuitive space to begin the sacred work of becoming whole.
OPENS MAY 9, 2025, 6-8PM
Artist Talk at 6:30 PM and Performance 7:30 PM
MEET THE ARTIST
Brandy Michele Adams
BRANDY MICHELE ADAMS
REST EXPERT & PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Brandy Michele Adams is the Founder & Creative Director of W.A.A.S. Her decades of business development, art curation and mentoring have led her to be a leading Educator. Her career as an artist has flourished into Immersive Installations she has expertly curated in her own gallery, and enthusiastically designs for clients committed to cultivating calm environments for corporations, teams and families. With a multi-decades career in bridging creativity and business together, Brandy has seen the importance of integrating both together through the lens of human health. She knows women are the ones who will lead this revolution.