Katey Branch
Life Artist | Author
"There is a deep well of communion with spirit that is allowed access through art. I am humbled by the experience of being an artist. The internal callings and challenges to listen and open to what wants to be birthed through me, continues to excite and awe me. I use a wide variety of mediums to celebrate the deep, creative life force within."
-Katey Branch
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The theme that is seen consistently through Katey's multi-media works & creations is the receptive, nurturing, sensual and intuitive energies that we all have access to. Her path has taken her into the healing arts as a massage therapist and yoga teacher at Halls Pond Healing Arts, where she helps guide people back into their bodies for healing. As such, her art and creations stem from the same energy and belief, that when we are connected to our Nature, we begin to heal ourselves and others.
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"In the Arms of the Mothers, Grieving the Pain of the World with Love"
is an interactive healing arts experience to inspire love in action. An opportunity for people to contemplate what is going on in the world and what arises in them through interactive offerings of meditation, creative expression, ecstatic dance, community singing, and artist presentation. Ten foot tall 'Mothers' painted on muslin with poetry between and pottery pots beneath which these big women are rising out of. Like genies come to grant wishes inspiring hope, peace and presence. Pottery sculptures of winged figures guard the doors and pottery eggs embossed with pregnant women are nested in the center of the space inviting the pregnant possibility of the rebirth of love infused thoughts, words, actions and politics.
"Waking Up to Wonder, Re-enchanting the World"
Transforming from a Southern Christian Fundamentalist to an Embodied Angel
Raised in the Star City of the South, one of eight children Katey was taught to follow the Bible as a map. But life intervened in the form of a long haired drug happy hippy that took her camping. She fell in love with the wilderness that showed her she is part of this beautiful planet called Earth that had a very different invitation for her. Giving birth to twins at home, having a community un-marrying ceremony, and burying her ex-husband in the back yard are a few of the events that followed. This heartwarmingly honest life story will give permission for you to live out loud guided by heart and meaning.