mage carr is an artist, counselor, and trained art therapist
Mage Carr, LMHC-AS is a european-american disabled non-binary multimedia artist and trained art therapist from, living, and working in Albuquerque, NM. Their work as an artist and counselor using art therapy notices the transformative, surprising, and aligning nature of creative processes for the collective and the self-of-the-collective. Mage works in varied tangible and digital mediums, with an emphasis on the somatic impact of the material and the metaphoric qualities of creation.
Mage received their BFA from Western Washington Univerisity in 2017, along with a BA in cultural anthropology, and went on to study counseling with art therapy at Antioch University Seattle, receiving their MA in 2023. Mage has seen therapeutic clients in the Albuquerque community and the greater NM area since Fall 2022.
Mage facilitates a virtual open creativity-oriented support group, Creativity and Chronic Illness, through the Center for Chronic Illness every Sunday 11-1:30 MST/MDT
"Art has taken care of me throughout my life, especially as I have become more disabled, and once I knew there was a way to facilitate other people noticing that creativity could take care of them, I invested my everything into it. I became an art therapist, trying to find my intrinsic community role in our commodified culture.
Over time, my art is less driven by product and instead luxuriates in the Process, as it changes our physical selves and allows us to step away from the internalized grinding, capitalist oppressive forces.
Creative processes create more space for imagined, radical futures and our capacity to act as if we are creating that more just world in our everyday lives.
This version of humans (homo sapiens) and the others before us have been creating the historical record with creative processes for at least 300,000 years--it is our ancestral right and responsibility to the generations that will follow us to create, crystallize moments and communities and versions-of-self, authentically, honestly, and with fervor."