Artist Care and Feeding

​Leah Lax is: A word person. A people person. One of those creative sorts who has to try to walk around as an ostensibly rational person. (The pandemic has eased that problem.) A secret cellist. And a collaborator, perhaps because she thinks in terms of music she isn’t very good at making herself. Leah is also a refugee from extreme religion, who has seven grown kids. Leah’s memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home is the only gay memoir ever to come out of the Hasidic ...

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Dr. Angelica McCarthy, DAT, LAT, ATC (she/her/hers) is a Doctor of AthleticTraining, specializing in performing arts medicine. Her purpose is to guidepeople in awareness and understanding of their bodies, through a holistic-based approach, to support longevity of health and well-being, movement, and life. Her philosophy is to treat the whole person— mind, body, and soul—to get tothe root of the problem and focus on the solution through health and well-beingpromotion and education, injury prev...

Nikki Kimbrough is a TV personality, Broadway performer, producer, director, personal trainer, and entrepreneur. She’s the CEO and founder of Get Fit with Nik, Inc. She made her Broadway debut as Etta James in the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. She is the executive director and owner of the Harlem All-Stars Theater Group, where their mission is to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, encourage and inspire underserved youth. With her boyfriend Billy Davis, she co...

Jennifer McNeely, artist, sculptor, and curator of the Miniature Art Museum at Seattle's Museum of Museums, has exhibited her sculpture extensively in her native Pacific Northwest and across the United States for more than 20 years in both solo and group exhibitions. She has a unique approach to materials and process that have earned her many accolades including The Artist Trust GAP Grant, Portable Works Program, and inclusion in private collections and publications, such as a documentary ser...

ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Christopher Holt is a painter, water-colorist, and fresco artist. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, where he still lives and works among the mountains of Haywood County, its natural beauty continuing to inform and shape his artistry. Christopher grew up painting and drawing, ​eventually finding his way to the art department at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. There, his attention was captured by the Native American Artist Kimowan Metchewais and he learned much about the creative...

Karen Walrond is a writer, photographer, lawyer, author, and leadership and activism coach—a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator trained in Brené Brown's work on vulnerability, courage, shame-resilience and worthiness, as well as in positive psychology coaching from the Wholebeing Institute.She is a bestselling author on the subjects of tapping into your superpowers and how to work for change in the world without losing your joy. Karen's latest book, The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work fo...