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She superbly outlines her healing process through the creative and connecting power of myth and of her own painting, poetry and sculpture. Readers will look more deeply into themselves." |
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— Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst, author, The Pregnant Virgin; Dancing in the Flames; Bone; Dying into Life |
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NEWS:
Ann was one of the 1,000 Toronto women who have made a contribution to the arts in Toronto photographed by French artist Pierre Maraval for the "Mille Femmes" exhibition as part of Luminato, the 2008 Toronto Festival of the Arts and Creativity . Photos were on display at the Allen Lambert Galleria (http://www.lancome.ca/1000femmes)
Summer - Ann will be reading from her books, Shadows Light and My Grandmother's Hair at various venues on Manitoulin Island in July and August
Looking Ahead - to October and November 2008, and Solutions in Your Hands, Ann's workshops exploring how the arts can create a new perspective on how we see ourselves. Place and time TBA.
Ann Carson is available for group workshops please contact her for more information.
Ann Elizabeth Carson is a writer, poet, painter, sculptor, and feminist, recently retired from a practice in psychotherapy and family counselling which focused on various forms of expressive therapies.
My Grandmother's Hair, published October 2006, delves into personal and social stories about power — beautifully rendered in prose, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, and interviews with other people.
A Recent Review: My Grandmother's Hair - "the power of it is unmistakable, and, unavoidable." » Read more
Shadows Light, published in spring of 2005, is a collection of Carson's early and new poems illustrated with colour photographs of her sculptures.
Ann's next book, We All Become Stories, a collection of conversations about memory and the experience of being older.