About Ka

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Kathryn “Ka” June is a painter, costume designer, and performing artist raised in west Texas, and currently resides in Asheville, NC. 

She is primarily self-taught, and her former work in the healing arts is strongly influential in her craft. Her love for healing, nature, and beauty is the foundation of her art. 

She has performed and exhibited worldwide, and her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Paris Vogue, US Elle, Dark Beauty, and Mirrior magazines, and Rolling Stone online mag. 

Her work has been on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, and exhibited in the Van Wereldculturen Museums.

Ka has worked from her River Arts District studio in the Cotton Mill Studios Building (studio F) since 2017.

“The aim of my art is to celebrate the beauty I experience in this world, and to open the hearts and enrich the lives, of those who see it ” – Ka

 

I believe that what we create is what we experience in life. By using our creative gifts we can choose how to shape our reality, and deeply impact the lives of those around us. The aim of my art is to bring more beauty into this world.  When I experience beauty, I feel my heart open.  When I have an open heart, I experience more love, peace, joy and healing in my life. I hope to inspire an awareness of sovereign empowerment in our collective heart, to create the beauty we wish to see in the world.I hold great reverence for our collaborative potential to bridge Heaven and Earth through our love and imagination.

Interviews with Ka

If you are intrigued, and wish to learn more about Ka’s work, and why she does what she does:

Interview with Marya Stark

Interview with SolPurpose

 

Performances and Exhibitions include:

 

2024 River Arts District Festival, Asheville, NC

2024 Famtastic Festival, Mills River, NC

2023 “A Leo Family Affair” , Mills River, NC

2022 Solasta Festival, Mills River, NC

2019 “No Spectators” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

2019 LEAF Festival, Black Mountain, NC

2018 “No Spectators” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

2018 “Interconnected”, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC – (curated, displayed, and performed)

2017 Awakened Women’s Convergence, Tuscon, AZ

2017 LEAF Festival, Black Mountain, NC

2017, “Oregon Eclipse” Symbiosis Festival, OR

2017 ongoing exhibition, ZaPow Gallery, Asheville, NC

2017 “Devoted” The Block, Asheville, NC

2016 slide presentation at Van Weldenculturen Museum, Amsterdam

2016 “Unifier” Altamont Theatre, Asheville NC

2016 Sonic Bloom Festival Gallery, Denver, CO

2016 LEAF festival, Black Mountain, NC

2015 Beloved Festival Gallery, OR

2015 “Dreams and Divinities, Garden of Fernal Delights”, San Francisco, CA

2015 “Bicycle Day” Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA2014 “Winged Woman” Berkeley, CA

2013 Rootwire Festival Gallery, Logan, OH

2015 Symbiosis, CA  – performances with Liberation Movement and Rigzin, main stage

2015 Beloved, OR,  – main stage performance with Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation, gallery and live painting

2015 “Innerstellar”, Berkeley, CA  – Solo exhibition and performance

2015 “Dreams and Divinities, Garden of Fernal Delights”, San Francisco, CA,  – live painting

2015 “Bicycle Day”, San Francisco, CA – gallery

2014 CoSM’s “Demons and Deities” Masquerade, Wappingers Falls, NY 

2014 “Open Ancient Eyes” with Kayla Scintilla, Sebastopol, CA – performance

2014 Sonic Bloom, South Park, CO, main stage performance with Shpongle

2014 “Winged Woman”, Berkeley, CA,  – Performance and Gallery

2014 “Inspire Truth”: NYE, Portland, OR  – main stage performance with Tipper

2013 Rootwire, Ohio  – main stage performance with Karshe Kale, Art Gallery, keynote presentatuion

2012 “The Great Convergence”, Giza, Egypt  – performance

2013 Symbiosis  – pantheon stage performance with Liberation Movement & art gallery, 2009 – performance, 2006 – performance,

2011 “Illuminate Us”, San Francisco, CA  – Performance and Gallery

2012 Healing Hearts  – main Stage performance with Liberation Movement

2012 Sonic Bloom, CO – main stage performance with Emancipator, 2006 -main stage performance with Rena Jones

2011 L.I.B.  main stage performance with Seraphim Dance Theatre

2011 “Alchemeyez” Big Island, HI – main stage performances with Seraphim Dance Theatre & Winged Ones, Art gallery

2011 “Green Show” Shakespeare festival, Ashland, OR  – performance with Seraphim Dance Theatre

2011 Burning Man Artumnal Fundraiser, San Francisco, CA  – performance with Seraphim Dance Theatre

2010 Sea of Dreams, San Francisco, CA  – performance & gallery, 2009 – performance, 2008 – performance

2010 “Interdimensional Art Show”, San Francisco, CA  – performance, fashion show & gallery

2010 “Women of Visionary Art”, Tribe 13 Gallery, CA  – gallery

2010 Boom Festival, Portugal – performance & gallery,  

2012 Burning Man  – Fractal Nation & center camp with Seraphim Dance Theatre & gallery, 2011 – fractal nation stage & gallery, 2009, 2007,2006 – performances

2011 Harmony fest’s Techno Tribal Dance, Santa Rosa, CA  – performances

2009 /2010 Earthdance, Sebastopol, CA – main stage performance with Liquid Fire Mantra,  – main stage performance with Goddess Alchemy Project 

2010 – Achemeyez, HI – main stage performance and Art gallery

2010 Bicycle Day Celebration, San Francisco, CA  – performance & gallery

2009 “Interdimensional Art Show” San Francisco, CA – performance & gallery

2009 “Illuminated Experience”, SF & Oakland – performances

2009 Moksha Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami, FL  – performance & gallery

2008 Boom Festival, Portugal – performance and gallery

2008 “Temple of Mirrors” San Francisco, CA – performance

2006 Raindance 2009 – performances

2008 Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, CA  – gallery

2006 Glade Festival, England  – performance

2006 “Soulclipse” Festival, Turkey  – performance & gallery

2006 CoSM, NY  – performance

2006 Xingolati, Los Angeles, CA – performance

2006 Govinda, Moscow – performance