Judith-Kate Friedman
photo by R. David Zaslow
WELCOME to Aliveness Through Arts ~ a playground and practice place for creative souls who love the world.
At essence we’re all creatives. Our artistry thrives when conditions are good for blooming, and the truths and voices we carry are deeply needed. Now is such a time.
Be you a seasoned adventurer in the arts or a new arrival to creative identity…. Welcome!
If you're here to connect more fully with the artist you are or wish to become... and meet others who, like you, are seeking more courage, confirmation, and camaraderie....
I offer a range of research-vetted resources that boost your juice, increase joy, help metabolize grief, and uphold well-being for you and those you love and serve. Schedule a call with me to discuss your journey and needs, design a series of breakthrough coaching, mentoring, or consulting sessions, or see which of my cohorts for women creatives is a good fit for you.
If you're looking to access my original music, art, or poetry, invite a concert, collaboration, or commission a new work, or learn more about the charitable Mythsinger Legacy Project and Songwriting Works Educational Foundation which I'm honored to steward, Thank You.
You'll find the latest links, content, and connections below.
There’s a Celtic tale in which the God Lugh seeks to enter the Gates into Tara,
where its denizens keenly say yes only to those with talents they truly need.
Each time Lugh approaches and beseeches, naming one of his many skills.
And each time he’s told they already have, and don’t need, what he brings.
Yet, unstoppable, he asks again.
Finally, he claims and proclaims his true fullness: “I am all this!”
And access to unforeseen, long-guarded, longed-for realms and new collaborations opens.
So it is with us humans, too.
Whether your quest here is personal or public facing…. Your creativity and presence matter.
Let’s explore ways to help you be more fully all you are and came here to be.
I’m honored to bring my own artistry, and 35+ years of experience as a mentor, coach to creatives, and community-based arts facilitator, on behalf of your success and the thriving of your communities.
Please let me know:
What called you here?
How might I support you in your unique work?
With love, gratitude, story, and song,
Judith-Kate
Judith-Kate Friedman is an award-winning composer and producer, multi-modal artist and author.
Support for Your Creativity in 2024
with Judith-Kate as your mentor, coach, and facilitator.
Ways to work together:
Your Breakthrough Year ~ Creative Cohorts for Women artists, dreamers, leaders, and changemakers
Individual Coaching Sessions and Packages for Creatives of All Ages
Dr. Claire Zammit’s 7-week Feminine Power for the Awakening Woman course
with authorized coaching and guidance from Judith-Kate
Current and Recent Projects
Publications and Press
“We never give up, although we give in
We drink the above and grow from within
We wave in the breeze
We watch you begin
And teach you to listen for what weaves and spins”
“A tremendous songwriter with a real gift for prose, too.”
As Judith-Kate says: “It’s one of the great honors of my life to represent Daniel Deardorff’s book The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche, 3rd ed. (Inner Traditions, 2022) and to serve as Steward of the Mythsinger Legacy Project through which his work as a musician, songwriter, mythteller, author, teacher, and beloved, lives on.” Judith-Kate was featured in many podcasts. Listen here.
Poetry became a garden during sequestration (2020-2022) as Judith-Kate fell into a rhythm of delight with her inner introvert. Her poems appear in Arbella Poetry Magazine Winter 21/22 and the London Writers Salon’s Writing in Community anthology 2 and 3. After the poet Robert Bly’s passing in November 2021, she wrote daily poems for 366 days. She is reprising this poem-a-day practice in 2024 as a participant and social media moderator for The Stafford Challenge. Learn more here.
M.A. Poetics of Imagination ~ From the far reaches of the rural Pacific Northwest in a time of extended liminality, bereavement, and pandemic, Judith-Kate took up mythologist Martin Shaw’s invitation to dive deeply into myth studies with himself and faculty at Dartington Arts School, UK (2020-21). Through forests of feasts and ferocity she emerged with a newly-braided sense of her current work as artist, scholar, and activist.
Her multi-modal gallery/dissertation “Mandorla Rising” takes visitors on the journey of her life both with Deardorff (1952-2019) and on the mythic and musical path upon which she now wyrdly wanders.
And Music? YES. Music is part of everything for Judith-Kate as those of you who know her know.
Her next musical event is the hosting and sprinkling in of songs for the March 27th Mythsinger StoryNight held on Zoom.
Watch the events page for more dates and details as they arrive.
Tapestry, Deer Park, Olympic Mountains, WA —Judith-Kate Friedman