Community • Education • Arts' @theroundtable interview with Outsider Artist Kim Carlson
@theroundtable is a podcast & short videos series hosted by Community • Education • Arts (@4CEArts), where we discuss the Arts with writers, musicians, artists, and all kinds of creatives! Podcast episodes air on our website (https://cearts.org/theroundtable-podcast ) on Fridays at 4pm, and corresponding videos are uploaded to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKGauoE3k3ssNBmeCnYGH2Q/playlists?view=1&sort=da&flow=grid
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Kim Carlson is an outsider artist who operates and creates within the realms of conceptual and collaborative frameworks. Outsider art is a form of art that is derived from individuals with little to no formal art instruction or knowledge. Outsider art is a gnostic art; the term gnosis refers to something that is ‘known’ directly from the source of all that is and tends to have mystical qualities about it. Outsider artists are often people marginalized in Western society, misunderstood, misrepresented, and misinterpreted in and among the cultures, communities, and families, making many of them in the American and predominantly Western cultures categorized as mentally ill and/or disabled. For Kim, being an outsider artist means that she allows her spirit and intuition to guide what she creates. Artistically, this has led Kim through anime and comic book-style art to painting, mixed media, dance, written word, teaching, nursing, coaching, and Tarot card inspired psychic readings and interpretations. Kim believes the ultimate mission of the outsider artist is to awaken in themselves their authenticity, transform the world they see around them from pain and suffering to joy, love, and inspiration, and then to go out in to the world and shine with hope and light to inspire others to do the same. Follow Kim on Instagram at kim.carlson.art
