Kathleen Brigidina
I consider myself an ARTivist, my hope is that my art speaks to inspire, and seeks to envision a happy healthy world. I believe creativity is a core super-power we all infused with, making each of us a source of limitless possibility and positive potential for our world.
My creativity has guided me down many paths, as an Energy Practitioner, Eco-Artist, Creative Coach/Teacher, Writer, Art Curator, Eco-Art Therapy Guide, Visual Recorder, Mural/Faux Painter, Sustainable Interior/Garden Designer, and Green Event Coordinator. My deepest passions are to explore all our natural super-powers of healing, inspiration, intuition, imagination, intention, envisioning and ancient Earth wisdom. My Eco-studio is a work in progress. I recycle canvas, frames, and many other materials, make earth friendly recipes, forage bits of trees, plants, & Earth, teaching about natural paint pigments. Mother Earth is my muse and I hope my art sparks awareness, connection, and love for her. Connecting to our true nature, and empowering the rising feminine in all of us, motivates the art exhibits I curate, with messages and fundraisers to reforest and feed the planet, protect our water, dissolve domestic, and physical violence towards women, children, & Earth.
My children my greatest gifts. Like four chambers of my heart, my two sons Padraig, and Patrick, and my two daughters, Bridget, and Erin, guide my path with their unwavering capacity to teach me love, joy, & light.
I look forward to creating with you. You can reach me HERE,
Details of my passion, education and experience, if you choose to read on.
Positions
"TreeSisters Organization" -Artists Partner Liason, Water Carriers, and TreeSisters Well of Creativity & Wisdom
"The Loving Waters” - Council Member / Water Guardian (Great Lakes Watershed, Des Plaines River, Chicago & Fox Rivers
"The Long Red Line" (local chapter of "One Billion Rising") - Board Member / Artist Curation
"Mauriora Society" - Mother’s Council, "Mahuta Te Whaea" (translation: Mother with the Essence of the Forest)
Art Exhibit Curation & live Painting
2018 Current: "Rise and Shine Global" A virtual exhibit Here:
"The Language of Water" ArtSpace Gallery
"Guinnes Book of Records" - Largest Exhibit of Environmental Artwork, Chicago Gallery & Schools
"Rise and Shine HeART to ART" Artspace Lofts & Gallery
"Art on the Fox" - Live Painting Exhibtion
Art and Soul on the Fox
Experience & Education
"Art Institute of Chicago"
"Energy Healing Practitioner" Modalities: Reiki, B.E.S.T, EMT (tapping), Energy Healing/Carol Tuttle, HeartMath, Ancient Art of Tanmatra, Celtic Chakra Spiraling, Matrix Energetics, Birth Energy Profiling, Meditation, and Creative Visualization.
"Wild Soul Woman Retreat" Ben Lomond, California - Assistant facilitator to Mary Thompson Reynolds
"Art of Allowing" with Flora Aube - Facilitator,
"Emergence" A Journey from Ego to Essence with Patricia Elsberg - Facilitator
"Earth Institute" - Eco-Therapy Guide
"Portland State University-Project Nature Connect" - Eco-Art Therapy Guide
"Red Tent" Women’s Circle - Facilitator,
"The Pachamama Alliance" - Facilitator
"Transition Town" - Facilitator
Certified Laughter Yoga - Instructor
"IONS, Institute of Noetic Science" - Facilitator of "New Worldview Explorations"
"Foundation of Conscious Evolution"- Guide Founding Steward, "CEC~ Conscious Evolutionaries Chicagoland" -Barbara Marx Hubbard
"CCI GreenHeart" - Local Coordinator, Foreign Exchange Student Program
"Shared Harvest" - Orignal Board Member
"ECC, Elgin Community College" - Sustainability & Green Studies Program teacher/ coordinator (Community Curriculum) as well 6 other local community colleges including, "MCC Mchenry County College", "WCC Waubonsee Community College", &
"RCC Rockford Community College" and more.
Environmaental Events Directorships
"Elgin Green Expo" ECC, Elgin Community College 2009
Schaumburg Business Alliance "Green Zone" - Radisson Hotel
TransUnion "Green Event and Exhibit"- Chicago
"Food Day" 2010-2014
Hoffman Estates - "Earth Day Celebration" Director 2009-2012
Navy Pier "Chicago Flower & Garden Show" Design and Coordination (First 2- Sustainable Gardens)