Carol 'Toots' Morris's home page

Carol Kabuki Elivs Carol Morris is an Ann Arbor poet, artist, video maker, and teacher of collage workshops for women in prison.

She collaborates with musicians, recording & performing her original poems set to music. Her work is available on compact disc from Silkrhino Records

Her CD release party of LAST WILL & PEPPERMINT took place at The Bean in Whackatane New Zealand, April 2006.

Toots often reads in local art galleries. She's currently booking performances in the SE Michigan area for 2009.

Traditionally a narrative poet, she has been widely published in literary journals. Carol's poetry chapbooks, published by Pudding House Press and Michigan State University are available by mail.

Her graphic art products (mainly one-of-a-kind greeting cards and Lucky Boxes) are sold in art galleries and art sales around the country. Her main concentration has been Mailable Art using vintage magazine images and collage techniques.

She is pleased to know that thousands of her cards have circulated and are often displayed on refrigerator doors around the world. Testing of these cards on free-range monkeys established that 9 out of 10 cards are delightful as well as collectible.

Since 2000, she's been volunteering to develop and teach for women in prison. Collage is well suited for this environment and Carol's non-directive teaching methods have met with much success.

Recently she's begun work in a new medium, "altering" books. One of her journals was recently exhibited in the State of Michigan Library in Lansing. She has altered a 1968 Webster Dictionary which has 1,008 pages, and a Funk & Wagnall Encyclopedia, (Volume PO. Poet, Potash, Potatoes, etc.) She continues to alter discarded children's books for exhibits.

Dimestore Valentines, a subsidiary of Silk Rhino Records, has released several films by Carol this year. These have all been shown on the Ann Arbor Community Television Network Channel 17. These are A Day In Colorado, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT (a video artist statement), Tracer , and Off The Wall, A Few Days in New Zealand, A Rumi Performance which is a Celebration of Contemporary Womens' Art. Tracer was a documentary of Allen Kaprow's performance score involving a box of chalk and an eraser. The film, along with like films, was shown as an adjunct to the exhibit "The Constant Possibility of Erasure" at Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City, New York.

Current projects include work on a new spoken word CD "Dementia of Peacocks" and a variety show series for Community TV starring Lobbie Lamento, an electronic / mechanical singing lobster who interviews local human celebrities.

Carol “Toots” Morris