PublicAtion: collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences With CollagE

Gherdai Hassell is one of the contributing artists to the 2021 Collage Care book by Laurie Kanyer of the Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection

Are you looking for a way to help to transform your emotions, feelings, and life experiences? Are you ready to invest in your self-care?

Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage will help!

Collage is the ideal tool to transform your life by breaking through your emotions and experiences. Collage Care will show you how collage, a remarkable art form, will become a best friend, a trusted advisor, and a great problem solver. Collage Care demonstrates how using collage offers ways to eliminate your trials and tribulations so you can embrace your joys.

Collage is for everyone, is accessible, and is nearly free. It is a swift way to get to the heart of a concern. The author of Collage Care, Laurie Kanyer, MA knows how collage helps, as she witnessed remarkable miracles using collage for 35 years in the classroom and as a therapist.

Collage Care offers:

• 125 ways, called Gems, describing how collage helps solve problems, manage feelings, and build self-esteem. 
• Tools to regulate your emotions, know your True Self, reduce the pressure of your inner critic, and calm your mind.
• Ways to use collage to improve your relationships and strengthen your communication style. 
• Over 150 full color, fine art collages offering inspiration and encouragement. This book is both a healing tool and a fine art book! 
• Reflections—real life testimonies—from people all over the world whose lives were transformed using collage. 
• Essays from experts in the fields of art, social work and art history to further document the value of collage as a premiere tool for transformation.

Collage Care is also a perfect book for those in the helping professions, counselors, teachers and more. Collage Care is useful for historical art research and the historical implications of collage on emotional well-being.

Print Version

The book is both a fine art coffee table book (over 150 collages made by 132 artists), and a self-help book promoting well-being and transformation using collage. It was written primarily with the collagist in mind, and will most definitely support your well-being, and further your art practice.

Near the front of the book you will find a list of the 132 artists featured in the book from all over the world. Scrolling through the book you will see your art and the art from other acclaimed artists like youself—all of whom are in the Collection. 

The book features 125 ways (empirical evidence), I discovered from my 35 years of research and observations on how college specifically transforms. To our knowledge, this may be one of the first publications recording the deep, and miraculous ways collages transform lives.

A number of experts—artists, historians and a social worker—wrote scholarly essays on this topic and many accomplished collagists wrote testimonies (Reflections) sharing how collage transformed their lives. 

An endorsement, “Collage Care provides a unique insight into collage by thinking about it as a form of self-care. Drawing on Kanyer’s extensive experience of using collage to improve people’s lives, this inspirational book explores the medium’s exceptional capacity to provoke self-reflection, to focus attention and to embrace the intricacies of one’s emotional life. In so doing, it powerfully demonstrates how a simple tool can help to process complex problems, memories and feelings.” 

—Dr Freya Gowrley, co-founder,Collage Research Network, and author, Collage Before Modernism, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage (2019), Scotland 

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