Heidi McGurrin, poetry introduction

Friday, November 15, 5:30 – 7 pm

Jacqueline Canterbury, a native of Monterey, considers her home-footprint to be from the southern tip of Monterey County to the headlands of Marin. She has lived away from this home five times in her lifetime, and always returns. She says, “I consider ‘place’ to be so important to how I see myself and know this one to be mine.” The central theme of her work revolves around salvaged clothing, and addresses social and political norms, and question’s conventional function. Her work is mostly remade from historic textiles and wearable sources, derived from flea markets, thrift stores and antique shops 

Heidi McGurrin is a poet, painter, photographer and writer. Although poetry has always been a part of her artistic vocabulary, it was only in 2017 that she began to share her poems with the public through such groups as the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, and the Illia Thompson memoir writers and other poetry groups. She has published two books titled, Havana Dream, and Poetic Landscapes, Memories of My life, which can be found on the website www.blurb.com in the bookstore section. She is the granddaughter of the founder an artists’ colony which is today Carmel-by-the-Sea, and lives on the Monterey peninsula where she creates artwork and teaches poetry and painting to children from nearby coastal towns.

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