My Spiritual Shenanigans

Uncategorized · April 30, 2025

May 7th – Free, Online EXA Workshop

The next Expressive Arts Without Borders FREE Workshop will be both experiential and a panel discussion to explore where expressive arts are headed. Join the conversation with the EXA Without Borders Leadership Group on Wednesday, May 7, from 9:30 AM…

Uncategorized · February 24, 2025

Scarves – A Hug From My Paintings

In the late 70’s, I started a new ritual. I didn’t like saying goodbye, so I started to say, “good energy to you“. Something often lingers, is it ever really a goodbye? Decades later, when I was a resident artist…

Good things happen

When a person plays with and responds to colors and lines with their own feelings, good things happen. We become right in tune with our own self. I took a course from Nancy and that is what happened. She mentored me as well as an artist on the ward volunteer at the University of Alberta Hospital as well.

I continue to play and enjoy! Stress recedes. Just let yourself flow.

Janet Fraser

Retired School Teacher & Practising Artist

Discover what magic is

Nancy Corrigan knows what magic is and she finds a way to bring that into both her art-making and her therapeutic sensibilities. Her ability to navigate the dark, is balanced with her natural ability to experience joy.

Markus Scott-Alexander

PhD, REAT - Director of World Arts Organization and founder of Expressive Arts Without Borders

I felt compelled for Nancy’s support

After reviewing Nancy’s thesis, “A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Sensing of Beauty”(2020), I felt compelled to ask her for support in my less formal project called “Between the Lines: Merging Portraits
and Stories of Older Adults”. I knew from my nursing and art experience that this was the best approach to facilitate authentic experiences from my sitters.

Nancy understood what I was aiming for and provided timely support by sharing some of her experience and suggesting ways forward with my work. She is an active listener and thoughtful in responding.

Mary Whale

Nurse & Artist

She is the lived experience of process over result

Working with Nancy on her MA Thesis, Drawing on Life Stories: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Sensing of Beauty was an exercise in shaping sensation into words. She earnestly follows a line even as she draws it, and with her thesis, she shares the lived experience of valuing process over result. For her, the process is about noticing. About sensing. She equates beauty with something that nurtures humanness. Spend some time with her thesis and her art. You’ll find yourself, with her, on the edge of discovery.

Nancy Mackenzie

Bronze Horse Communications

Masterful!

Nancy and I have trained together for many years in Expressive Arts through World Arts Organization. She is masterful at co-creating new growth through her always present wisdom, kindness, and poetic nature. Her art courses helped me to expand my painting skills, my awareness, and my creativity.

Lynda Kordyban

Registered Psychologist & Expressive Art Practitioner