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Artist Katie Kikta reconnects to drawing and the divine beauty of life
Lindsay Gallery hosts the local art educator s first solo show, with an open house on Saturday, May 8
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Toward the beginning of the pandemic last year, Katie Kikta went through a destabilizing breakup. She moved out and began living on her own, trying to determine what the next stage of her life would look like.
“I went through a lot of therapy, figuring out ways to reconnect to myself. And I hadn t been making art,” Kikta said recently by phone.
During this journey of self-discovery, Kikta listened to music and read books by self-help author Brené Brown. “I was really hard on myself with what had happened in my past relationship, the mistakes that I had made. And [Brown] talks about owning your truth and your stories and reconnecting to creativity,” she said.