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Art: Like a Prayer

“Praying for a Harvest Moon”, 2010 (pictured here) was my first attempt at making a visual prayer. It invoked my fervent desire to attain my creative goals as I approached the mid-point of my life.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion […]

Did you know that for most of my life I’ve felt like I’ve been cursed? Whenever I tell my husband this he always says its nonsense and that I ought to practice what I preach by believing in positive thinking to bring good things my way. While I believe in positive […]

Everything Old is New Again: Re-inventing Stories to Collage

Since time immemorial, story tellers have been taking old stories and making them new again. Walt Disney after all was not the first man to relay the tale of Cinderella – its origins are centuries old and it has been re-crafted by many cultures around the world. You can use this same exciting tactic […]

Artist Trading Cards: Bits & Bytes

Michelle Casey, “Being” (Interior, detail), ATC, Collage, 7.5 x 3.5 inches, March 2013

There’ve been so many exciting things happening on the Artist Trading Card (ATC) front here at Collage Your World – I’m delighted to share them with you!

Deeply in Love in February…

In mid February I participated in an exchange […]

Changing the World, One Collage at a Time

Recently, I assisted elementary school teacher Catherine and her grade six students with a collage project. After working throughout the year on a social issues theme with her class, she asked them to create a collage of the “footprint” they’d like to leave in the world: things they wanted changed for the better.

Now, […]

Life through the Arts: Surviving the Impossible Dream

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how art helped me survive family turmoil during my early years. We had a lovely house, clean clothes and good food at the table, but at the heart of our home something was terribly wrong. By the age of 10 I began to sense how important communication and expression […]

Art: Like a Prayer

I Believe in Miracles!

Everything Old is New Again: Re-inventing Stories to Collage

Artist Trading Cards: Bits & Bytes

Changing the World, One Collage at a Time

Life through the Arts: Surviving the Impossible Dream

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