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February 2010

Creative Aging: Embracing the Second Half of Life A new course for the creative aging!
Healing Stitches Artists

How Your Art Imitates Your Life
Listen to a recording about Healing Stitches

Creativity Coaching for Textile Artists An online creative course
Workshops news News about our workshops & coaching
Other news What's on and what else is news . . .


* Enjoy the new work of Mary Sullivan-Holdgrafer




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Creativity Coaching -
Our offering of creativity coaching for individuals is closely related to our interests in leading workshops for groups of people. Creativity coaching can be done in face-to-face sessions or through e-mail for those who live in other locales.




 
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Mary has been invited to serve as a creativity coaching expert on the new Go-Make-Art website www.go-make-art.com. She is one of a panel of experts from around the world who will contribute to new e-zine. Go-Make-Art.com is a new website where you can get ideas for using art as a tool for self-discovery, self-development and self-expression.

A piece of Mary’s work has been accepted by the Canadian Craft Federation to the "Unity and Diversity" Exhibition at the Canadian Pavilion of the Cheoungju International Biennale in South Korea. The Biennale runs from September 23 - November 1, 2009.


Arts and the Spirit: The Role of Art in Faith Formation, edited by Mary Anne MacFarlane and E. Ann Fleming has just been released. Mary has a chapter in the book entitled "A Gift of Transformation: Healing Through Art." Her art work, "Healing Goddess" (2000) appears on the cover as well as inside the book. For information on ordering the book contact the United Church Publishing House
www.united-church.ca/ucph.

 


AFRICAN THREADS: for the Grandmother to Grandmother Campign

Val Hearder has started a new project selling charming hand-embroidered folk art textiles from South Africa.

It is an iniative to do something to help alleviate the suffering the unfolding HIV/AIDS pandemic that's ravaging Africa. She is
donating 15% of all profits to the Grandmother-to-Grandmother Campaign Campaign run by the Stephen Lewis Foundation, thus benefiting the women in Africa twice, first by buying their embroideries, then giving the profits back to The Grandmothers Campaign.

The stitches and threads in these beautiful hangings are symbolic of the strength of the grandmothers who, in dire situations, hold their fragile families and communities together by caring for the millions of orphans left behind by HIV/AIDS. For many of the women stitching embroidery is their only means of support. I find these hangings so charming, optimistic, and poignant.

To purchase a piece visit www.africanthreads.ca.

Drop Valerie an email to get on her African threads mailing list so you can find out when new textiels arrive. val@valerie hearder.com.

To find out more about HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Grandmothers-to-Grandmothers Campaign please visit the Stephen Lewis Foundation.


 


 
 
 
 
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