Welcome to the studio! Today I jump back into our solo conversation rhythm by answering a friend's art question and digging into the complex idea of celebration. In the episode I read a few quotes from the extraordinary book These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanities Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe which I highly recommend for the curious. The image you see with today's episode is my painting Atlas: Colorado which was recently selected for an art publication coming out this fall (as I practice celebrating).

If you have any art or theory questions you'd like to hear me discuss on a future episode, please submit them through the show notes!

To find out more about my work, visit my website: ⁠kimmynotkim.com⁠ or follow me on IG @kimmynotkim

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Welcome to the studio! This week we're joined by Amanda Raquel, a longtime friend and singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and mother. We dig into the (dreaded, trecherous, life-giving?) topic of business for the artist. Rest assured however, there is nothing dull about this conversation, Amanda takes us on an empowering and soul-searching journey into the complicated world of money making. Enjoy!

More information about Amanda Raquel's personal work can be found at⁠www.amandais.com⁠ and information about her coaching & retreats at⁠www.bravevoiceacademy.com⁠ Follow Amanda on Instagram @amandamuxic

For more info about the work of Kimmy Noonen (your host):⁠www.kimmynotkim.com⁠ or IG @kimmynotkim

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Come into the studio today with me (visual artist Kimmy Noonen) and my husband Nate Noonen as we dig into the stories of our individual and partnered mental health journeys and what it means to keep going. **Trigger warning: the topic of suicide is discussed in this episode, please take care as you listen.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero (highly recommended book)

⁠Compass Health Services⁠ (Chicagoland intensive therapy program)

Internal Family Systems (therapy modality)

Find out more about my work and this podcast at: www.kimmynotkim.com or Instagram @kimmynotkim

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Visual artist Catherine Reinhart comes to the studio today to have a conversation about being makers, mothers, and unpack the conceptual richness of critically and materially engaged caregiving. If you're not driving while listening, plan to have a pen and paper by your side to write down the gems that sneak their way into this conversation!

You can find out more about Catherine's work at: www.catherinereinhart.com or Instagram @catherine_reinhart_studio

The book Catherine read from in the episode is: The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han

Find out more about my work and this podcast at: www.kimmynotkim.com or Instagram @kimmynotkim

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I'm your host, visual artist Kimmy Noonen, and today I'm joined by two amazing artists for a conversation about our practices, motherhood and the experience of aging as women in the artworld. Deirdre Colgan-Jones works in sculpture, installation and creative coaching and Kathryn Rodrigues is a photographer, printmaker and collage artist, both residing in the Chicagoland area. We met through the Thrive Together Network, a global online community of women and non-binary artists (which is referred to a few times in this episode). I hope you find as much wisdome and reslience in these women's words as I did!

Find Deirdre's work online: ⁠deirdrecolganjones.com⁠ & Instagram @deirdrecolganjones

Find Kathryn's work online: ⁠kathrynrodrigues.com ⁠& Instagram @kathryn.rodrigues

As always, you can find more about this podcast or my work at ⁠kimmynotkim.com⁠ & IG @kimmynotkim

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Today I have a conversation with my oldest child, ten year old Charlotte. We go together into the vast world of Minecraft and make unexpected connections between the game, real life, and my Atlas painting series. It's also a pretty fun to hear our rhythm of communication, the comfort and excitement that comes between two people that know each other so well and yet are still learning so many things about each other.

To see more of my work, visit www.kimmynotkim.com or on Instagram @kimmynotkim

Photo: Atlas North Florida / 2023 / 14x11", 2005 Road Atlas, panel board, acrylic paint spray paint

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Feeling the limits of life, this episode carves out just enough time to stop and remember the table of life. We read the poem Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo in her memoir Poet Warrior and take a deep breath of thought in the sunshine.

To see the artwork of host Kimmy Noonen, please go to www.kimmynotkim.com or IG @ kimmynotkim

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Philosophizing my way through the idea of motherhood and art making with the help of work from women I admire (myself included). An honest, raw expression of the wonder and agony of being more than I knew I was and how it shows up in my life.

Special shout out to: ⁠Positive Space Studios⁠ in Chicago for hosting the group show This Is Your Allowance, a show of nine artist mothers who examine their own bodies, experiences and pieces of the mundane, to create otherworldly landscapes and reimagined portraits. This show is part of the Taking Up Space initiative, a grassroots movement for women and non-binary artists through the ⁠Thrive Together Network⁠. Artists in the show include Amanda Mulcahy, Cathleen Cramer, Deirdre Colgan Jones, Elaine Luther, Kathryn Rodrigues, Kelley Clink, Melissa Mendiola, Jill Nahrstedt and myself, Kimmy Noonen.

And, The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland (go buy your copy wherever books are sold, it's fantastic!)

See my work at kimmynotkim.com and on Instagram @kimmynotkim 

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Join me, visual artist Kimmy Noonen, in my studio as I talk about my unfolding journey of self-sight and how much I love the Enneagram as a tool to accelerate that process. I also go into some vulnerable places, talking about being an artist of faith, how vital it's been to my growth to have a community of other artist believers, and the tensions of remaining in the church despite all the reasons to leave.

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Today we will hear from Jane, my tremendous six year old daughter, and what she loves about art and how she sees her mother's work in the studio. I hope you find joy in this time capsule moment in my life as an artist mother!

To learn more about me, Kimmy Noonen, visit ⁠kimmynotkim.com ⁠or on Instagram @kimmynotkim

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