Welcome to Aliveness Through Arts.

In times like ours,
making art of all kinds
is more crucial than ever.
As summer harvest in the Northern Hemisphere brings us fruits and veggies of resilience, awareness of life’s cycles and gratitude deepen. Can you feel it?

Perhaps for you, as it is for me, it’s a season when loved ones and ways of life we may have taken for granted are changing form, passing on, leaving us not only to grieve but to celebrate - and find ways to dare lift our voices and hearts into what comes next.
It’s a time to return and re-commit to what matters most.
To join forces toward making the future we want to see for ourselves, our communities, next generations….

We are each unique, insistent, and beautiful as dancing gold-green willow leaves falling…
ripening in our inner and outer gardens, we prepare to honor abundance and share
collective bounty—wisdom—curiosity.
What helps sustain your strength and passionate energy amidst heat and change?
Where could you use a hand?

In my work as a singer, songwriter, author facilitator, and designer of group experiences, I collaborate with folks of all kinds, cultures, and ages. You who’ve found, and you who are wanting to find your voices and and use your gifts for the greater good.
As the singer and activist Charlie Murphy once sang: “No one can bring in the harvest alone.”
Courage upwelling from love and justice appreciates proximity to courageousness.
Let’s do this together.

Starting the week of October 6th (enrolling now, with Sept 20 early bird rates), I’m offering 6-week cohorts for Creatives in Cahoots, and individual coaching journeys.
If you’re seeking support for a creative project or to make a leap or a gentle transformational arc in your creative life—Meet with me in a “discovery” conversation (sign up here). We’ll explore if or how the approach and accountability I offer can support your artistic joy and daily wonder.

Browse past coaching offerings here and here.
Throughout this website you’ll find links to my music,poetry, social practice projects my virtual gallery Portals to Myth: Mandorla Rising, song and poetry commissions, and more.

Multi-modal explorations in kinship with the Living World
Learn more about the work of two charitable organizations I founded and steward:
Songwritingworks.org - catalyzing joy, hope, and vitality, in community through story and song
Mythsingerlegacy.org - restoring the wisdom of myth to culture and community

Whatever speaks to you here, I look forward to speaking with you soon!

With love, gratitude, story, and song,
Judith-Kate Friedman