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With author and illustrator Alison Garwood-Jones
Discover how author and illustrator Alison Garwood-Jones found drawing to be a powerful way to process loss and promote healing. Garwood-Jones reflects on the grief of orphaned adults through a series of portraits—some grim, some funny, but all relatable—featured in her new book, I Miss My Mommy. Discover how creating art can help keep a loved one close or foster peace and understanding when there's no love lost. A unique opportunity to connect and reflect on the power of images and of art making to help us sit with emotions we'd rather avoid but can't stop feeling.
An audience Q&A will follow the talk, and her book will be available for sale and signing.
Borrow I Miss My Mommy from our collection
Alison Garwood-Jones is a magazine writer and a former editor at Elle Canada. In 2020, she founded PenJarProductions.com, her art print shop and publishing imprint. Her illustrated novel, I Miss My Mommy, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2024, and also won a silver medal at the 2025 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Alison teaches courses in writing and digital strategy at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.
If you need an accessibility accommodation during this program, please register early so we can confirm arrangements a few days before your visit.
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