PEGI EYERS
FEMME was a group exhibition at Impresario Artisan Gallery in Cobourg showcasing 8 local and regional artists and artisans, who explored how our creativity could heal self, others, community and the Earth. The diversity of themes and media in this exhibition emphasized the healing powers of art-making on the body, mind and soul, and how the expressive arts can become a daily transformative or spiritual tool. Women have always been the wisdom keepers and healers, and we continue to “empower our dreams” to communicate and connect, and to envision new directions and new worlds through our art practice and healing modalities. Including a well-attended opening, the exhibition celebrated the provocative, revelatory and transcendent aspects of Women and the Healing Arts.
"At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer ~ a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity."
Rachel Naomi Remen
"At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer ~ a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity."
Rachel Naomi Remen
L-R Gayle Crosmaz-Brown, Pegi Eyers, Diana Cohen, Veronica Derry, Anette Kristiansen
"Women and the Healing Arts" features FEMME, an exhibition in the main gallery, a Holistic Marketplace featuring the work of artists, artisans and other makers, and a schedule of workshops with modalities in the healing arts. All welcome!
FEMME
“Women and the Healing Arts”
Diana Cohen
Gayle Crosmaz-Brown
Veronica Derry
Pegi Eyers
Phyllis Kirk
Anette Kristiansen
Pat Purdy
Fay Wilkinson
“Women and the Healing Arts”
Diana Cohen
Gayle Crosmaz-Brown
Veronica Derry
Pegi Eyers
Phyllis Kirk
Anette Kristiansen
Pat Purdy
Fay Wilkinson
Sculpture and Assemblage by Diana Cohen
"Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing."
Julia Cameron
"I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever." Susan Griffin
"Creativity healed me. I don’t know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing." SARK
"It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference." Patricia Johanson
"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell
"The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit." Angeles Arrien
Julia Cameron
"I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever." Susan Griffin
"Creativity healed me. I don’t know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing." SARK
"It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference." Patricia Johanson
"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell
"The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit." Angeles Arrien
Exhibited in FEMME
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Clockwise from top right ~ work by Pegi Eyers, Pat Purdy, Phyllis Kirk and Annette Kristiansen. "Femme" was organized and curated by Pegi Eyers.
| Pegi Eyers is also the author of Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores social justice, nature spirituality, the ancestral arts, and resilience in times of massive change. www.stonecirclepress.com |
