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Kites and Strings is a podcast about creativity, living creatively and excelling in the process. Co-Hosts, Steve and Catherine are both registered art therapists and licensed clinical professional counselors in Chicago and New York City, repectively. They talk a smidge about their practices, but they mostly discuss the processes of maintaining and balancing a creative life. Guests, who have found their own successes in these edeavors are also routinely featured.

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Heather Polk, Visual Artist: Making is the Ultimate Bomb, the Best Therapy and the Best Healing (S3 E18)

January 29, 2023 • Steve Ploum, Catherine Chinnock / Heather Polk • Season 3 • Episode 18

In this episode Catherine and Steve talk with Heather Polk. She's a collage artist based out of Chicago who exhibits and is a featured artist with multiple collectives, such as The Get Gallery, Spacey Studios and PxP Contemporary. She's been featured in publications such as The New Yorker Magazine, The Washington Post and Cosmopolitan and she created www.artcuresall.com, which houses much of her amazing collage work, and outlines the idea that "Creativity Unleashed Rewards Every Soul" or C.U.R.E.S.

Heather shares about research she's done and has experienced in real life around the curative factors of art, artmaking and getting into flow states. She shares her somewhat happenstance discovery of artmaking while in the throws of caring an ill friend and she found that in the process, her exploration of art therapy, and how the work that she does not only taps into a subconscious part of her but that it also helps articulate and amplify her voice as a woman of color in a world that too often ignores and makes people like her invisible. What is quite refreshing in our talk is hearing how Heather epitomizes an integration of creativity rather than simply settling for balance.

Art C.U.R.E.S All - https://www.artcuresall.com/

Framed Gallery https://www.framedgallery.net/artists/heather-polk-38147
PxP Contemporary https://www.pxpcontemporary.com/collections/heather-polk
Spacey Studios https://spaceystudios.com/collections/heather-polk
The Get Gallery https://thegetgallery.com/collections/heather-polk

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