Kathie MacDuff

Kathie MacDuff is an artist, graphic designer and journalist who captures all her artistic passions within her signature program, Creative Journaling. For the past 26 years, she has been teaching this course as well as courses in watercolour, mixed media and paper arts. She is the Expressive Arts Team Lead at Wellspring Calgary where she’s been a regular facilitator offering many and varied courses over the past fourteen years. She was a forerunner instructor with the Tom Baker Cancer Center leading to the establishment of their Medicine in Art initiative and was involved with a year-long research program with the Primary Care Network Pain Clinic studying the effects of creativity on pain and depression. She has held regular classes at her own studio in Calgary since its inception in 2006 at the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd and is a regular guest instructor and speaker at many churches, retreat and conference centres throughout Alberta and British Columbia. Her vision is to facilitate creative experiences that encourage connections, validate emotions, and nourish the soul.