Happiness is a renewable resource. So is courage.
Creativity is how we get there. And we get there together.
— Judith-Kate Friedman
Welcome to Aliveness Through Arts.
In times like ours, making art in all forms is more crucial than ever. As Spring begins, pushing through its insistent beauty up from the earth, even as unexpected snowflakes fall, the sense of moving from one season to another is strong. Amidst all the sorrow and treachery in the world - it matters that each of us has a voice and uses it in ways that are generative and healing.
If that’s why you’re here - if you’re looking for music, poetry, coaching to support your creativity, or ways to collaborate to uplift the your loved ones, communities, or yourself -
I’m pleased to offer support for your aliveness through arts.
Some of what you’ll find on these webpages:
Recent Songs and Lyrics
Poems
Portals to Myth
Multi-modal explorations in kinship with the Living World
Invitations to join my 2026 and 2027 cohorts for creative people seeking creative transformations.
As a creativity coach, I bring all of what I know and keep learning about the arts, generativity and connection
on behalf of your thriving and effectiveness, be it for personal joy or public impact.
Browse past coaching offerings here and here. Info on 2026 small group cohorts coming soon.
I also offer community-based arts, facilitation, and leadership through the work of two charitable organizations I founded and steward:
Songwritingworks.org - restoring joy, hope, vitality, and community through story and song.
Mythsingerlegacy.org - restoring the wisdom of myth to culture and community.
Not sure where to start?
Let’s begin with a conversation, which you can schedule here.
I look forward to learning about your journey and seeing how I can support and champion you in your artistic well-being and creative life.
With warmth, gratitude, story, and song,
Judith-Kate
Recent Anthologies!
A Celtic tale:
The God Lugh sought to enter into Tara, dwelling place of the Gods.
At the gates into the Other World, Tara’s denizens would say yes only to those whose talents they truly needed.
Lugh approached and beseeched, naming one of his many skills:
Smith, harper, poet, magician, metal-worker, historian, physician….
Each time, he was told “We already have one. We don’t need anymore.”
Yet, Lugh was unstoppable.
Again, and again he offered a different aspect of himself with no luck.
Then one day, exasperated, he proclaimed his true fullness:
“I am all this!”
Swiftly the Gates opened granting Lugh access to longed-for, long-guarded, unforeseen realms.
And so it is with us, too.
Creativity opens our hearts and opens the hearts of others.
Claiming all of who we are restores us to wholeness
and we become our true selves: wondrous and unstoppable.
It’s when we claim our unique combination of skills, talents, gifts, and imperfections—when we acknowledge that indeed, there is no one else on earth quite like us—that doors open.
Let’s move through the gates of what once seemed impossible–together.
I look forward to hearing from you and to supporting your thriving.
—Judith-Kate
Tale adapted from the telling and teaching of Daniel ‘3D’ Deardorff from his book, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche (Inner Traditions, 2022).
Judith-Kate Friedman is an award-winning composer, producer, and multi-modal artist and author.
Tapestry, Deer Park, Olympic Mountains, WA —Judith-Kate Friedman