Above, Kintsugi art, broken pottery pieces put together in a beautiful form. Photo courtesy of Mary Ellen Ashcroft
On February 21 at 5:30 p.m., Spirit of the Wilderness’ Tenth Annual Art Show will open with a panel presentation on “Art and Healing.” The show, “Kintsugi: Brokenness, Healing, and Meaning” will be on view at North Shore Health through April.
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with precious metals. Artistic members of the community have made art around this theme of how our lives can be made more beautiful through our creative response to brokenness.
Beginning at 6 p.m., the panel presentation will include several people who practice creativity and healing.
Maggie Anderson, long-time therapist and potter, will speak about research showing the healing power of art and share some stories about creativity and healing.
Margy Nelson, healing arts practitioner, will reflect on the process of letting go of doing and fixing in order to allow the creative process of healing, and of art, to lead the way.
Mary Ellen Ashcroft, writer and pastor, will share some of her process of healing through writing following the death of her son.
In a society that usually discards that which is broken, we will hear and see how time and attention can bring something more lovely out of the fragments.
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