Meet Helen Kagan
We had the good fortune of connecting with Helen Kagan and we’ve shared our conversation below.
One of the most rewarding things about getting to know so many entrepreneurs and creatives is seeing first-hand how many of them are focused on so much more than just financial results. So many of the folks we connect with are focused on having a positive social impact on their community or the world at large. Can you talk to us about how you are helping the community?
Hello, and thank you for inviting me! Being a healer and artist, a creator of my unique multi-dimensional concept “HealingArts” I’ve been developing for over 25 years, I believe that ART is a catalyst for healing individuals, society and environment. I’ve been a pioneer in creating art with an INTENTION to heal. As a severe PTSD survivor my own complex life Journey brought me to the point where I would not survive without creating. As a true “healing artist” who started to use art, energy and spiritual work, music, movement, and other expressive modalities to support my own healing, and to enhance a healing process to those in need, I bring together Fine Art, and the Art of Healing by integrating healing frequencies of color, positively charged intention, embedded spiritual messages, and energetically balanced composition. My Vision, Mission, and Purpose is to bring my “HealingArts” to HealthCare, Residential and Hospitality facilities – to assist in recovery, encourage joy and happiness, and enhance healing and wellbeing to those in need by introducing high-vibrational multi-sensory experience, meditation & relaxation. It is not an easy task to accomplish as a “solo-entrepreneur”, but I keep hoping and doing everything I can in order for the right people and venues to show up on my Journey! You can see more info about #HelenKagan and my #HealingArts @ my main website www.HelenKagan.com
Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I am Helen Kagan PhD, a healing artist, a creator of my unique concept “HealingArts” integrating Fine Art, Expressive Arts, and the Art of Healing who believes that art heals. I believe in the inter-connectedness of mind, body and spirit, and that art as a powerful form of self-expression is a vehicle for emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being. I’ve created my brand “HealingArts” over 25 years ago when I first have been practicing healing work as a holistic practitioner. Being a Scientist, Psychologist, Therapist & Counselor helped me to conceptualize and further develop my concept “HealingArts”, while being a Healer and Artist – added a gift to express it in beautiful ways that warms your Heart and touches your Soul. For 15 years my #HelenKagan #HealingArts has been a “one-person” enterprise, and I am an owner/founder AND a key member/entrepreneur, which, of course, brings a lot of challenges. Around 2005 I began to create more healing artwork – first, for my own healing process as a person suffering from PTSD, and since then I’ve been creating this unique this modality while communicating my healing message to people and communities in need. I want to ensure that my “HealingArts” brand is communicated consistently and compellingly to galleries, curators, collectors, various art venues and organizations, Hospitals, Medical Centers, Corporate venues & facilities, Hotels, and other audiences, as I believe my “HealingArts” should have a big future! Especially now, in the midst of World-wide multiple challenges & crises, COVID pandemics, protests, fires, escalated overall crises saturated with fear, anxiety, illness, deaths, grief, and lots of stress and uncertainty, I do hope that my “HealingArts” can become a tool for serenity, a place for refuge, and will truly bring healing to everyone in need.
I think I am a true “healing artist” who started to use art, energy and spiritual work, music, movement, and other expressive modalities to support my own healing, and then to enhance a healing process to those in need. I bring together Fine Art, and the Art of Healing by synergistically integrating healing frequencies of color, positively charged intention, embedded spiritual messages, and energetically balanced composition. I believe in healing power of art, and my unique venue “HealingArts” – is a vehicle for emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being. My art is better experienced “in-person” due to live vibrations of bright colors, heavy textures, usually large size, and just an overall charisma and liveliness. Yet, many people who have in their possessions just my “healing cards” or prints, giclees (reproductions), or even just experienced my art online – they do report feeling better as well (see “testimonials” on my website). If you are a seeker on a Quest, are looking for some quintessential insight, or answers to your spiritual questions, looking to embrace healing frequencies emanating from my art or are just wishing to feel better – you might find rewarding to experience the healing power of my art in your environment.
Creating, developing, and making my brand “HealingArts” sustainable – has not been an easy task! The greatest challenges I’ve been facing in making my art a serious business venue, is that it is VERY difficult to find/create your buyer/Collector. Not to just have random individual sales here and there, but – to develop on-going relationships with your Collectors – both, in individual and corporate worlds.
I keep trying to bring my main focus into engaging Healthcare, Hospitality & Corporate Markets to utilize my “HealingArts” for their environment, but it is still the biggest challenge to even get into their “System”. But I keep trying and don’t give up! In the last several years I participated in over 50 Juried shows, national and international exhibitions. My art won awards, shown in many physical and online Galleries, Cities, States, Magazines, Articles, International Catalogs, major Shows & International Art Fairs (SPECTRUM ArtBasel Miami, ArtPalmBeach, ArtEXPO NY), and always elicited a profound positive response. I was nominated and awarded (by Brickel Magazine, ArtTour International, VividArts Network, ContemporaryArtCurator, Art&Beyond Magazine, Artrepreneur.com, and others), was presented in TV & Radio Interviews, my work is described as “symphony of colors” as it is saturated with passion, movement, positive intention & healing energy.
Since COVID started to dangerously affect the World, as a Light-worker I feel obligated to start creating new “life-affirming” healing art in a midst of our turbulent crazy times. I’ve been working on is new Series “Serenity”, and “Serenity Blues” which present beautiful calming colorful serene landscapes and seascapes that now has about 25 new artworks. My Vision, Mission, and Purpose is to bring my “HealingArts” to HealthCare, Residential and Hospitality facilities – to assist in recovery, encourage joy and happiness, and enhance healing and wellbeing to those in need by introducing high-vibrational multi-sensory experience, meditation & relaxation. It is not an easy task to accomplish as a “solo-entrepreneur”, but I keep hoping and doing everything I can in order for the right people and venues to show up on my Journey!
I believe for many of us, creatives, Art – is a spiritual path, a transformational process, a way of being. I believe art is a catalyst for healing individuals, society and the environment. I believe in the inter-connectedness of mind, body and spirit. I believe that now, more than ever, the World needs the positive energy and spiritually-based intentions, beliefs and values. My “HealingArts” can be an answer for many. You can just look at my paintings, take a deep breathe, inhale the bright healing colors and positively charged high-dimensional frequencies of Love & Light, and enjoy the feeling… Then repeat.
There’s something so intriguing that keeps you wonder, and perhaps even start your own soul searching quest… something that’s so beautiful that you can’t take your eyes away… something that’s so magnetically attractive that you keep coming back wanting to have more of it… something that’s so colorful and energizing that you want to jump to the sky and fall in love again… something so spiritual and healing that you can’t even describe exactly what it is – you can just FEEL that you have to have this artwork (or Series, or Collection) because it makes you HAPPY. It makes you feel better. It fulfills you and makes your life a little easier. It brings you Joy, Love and Light.
This is how I understand the Purpose and Mission of “Art for Healing”. And this is what I do – I create my “HealingArts”. (see more @ www.HelenKagan.com)
The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I am grateful to God, Universe, Multiverse, Higher Power, Angels, Archangels, all spiritual beings, my parents, my friends, and everyone else who’s been helping me (both, intentionally or unintentionally) to stay strong, to never give up, to continue creating and bring to those in need my unique “HealingArts”, regardless any difficulties, challenges, upheavals, illnesses, diagnoses, and all other complexities of Life. I am grateful to VoyageMIA and personally – to Erica Smith (who did a wonderful Interview with me in her Magazine a few years ago!) for inviting me again, to participate in this new venue. Thank you so much! I am grateful to all the Teachers, Coaches, Speakers, who offer various online Webinars, Seminars, Lectures, Challenges, Spiritual Retreats, and alike, in our challenging unprecedent violent times of COVID, bloody protests, political & ideological upheavals, broken dreams, lost jobs, closed businesses, and just crushed lives… I appreciate these professionals are giving great content while keeping their services free or charging minimal fees (there are so many of them that if you need the names, I’ll have to search it as I’ve taken quite a few of those webinars and challenges!) I am grateful to “Art&Beyond” Publishing Platform and personally – to Mila Ryk, a Founder & Chief Editor who often publishes my art in her Magazine and on website. In this difficult times she just offered me to have a page free of charge, in her new Winter Issue. Thank you, Mila! I am grateful to Artrepreneur.com who chose me as a Beta tester for their new “Services” and I won a 1year PRO membership! It is very timely… as my major SOLO Shows were cancelled and I felt totally crashed… Becoming a PRO membership with Artrepreneur.com will hopefully give me a new opportunity to reach out to the HealthCare & Hospitality Markets as I do believe that my unique #HealingArts by #HelenKagan (see www.HelenKagan.com) is SO NEEDED everywhere now – first of all in HealthCare, then Hospitality & Residential facilities, offices, buildings… I’ve been trying really hard to get through, reach out, get into their “circles”, but… I’m still working on getting access to their Interior Designers and/or Service Providers.
Thank you so much, Artrepreneur.com! I am grateful to the Art Council of MC (Martin County, FL) who granted me as a member $500 due to COVID financial challenges, which I was able to allocate to have 1 page in Art Tour International Magazine Special Issue “Art as a Healing Force”. I am also grateful to the Magazine Publisher, Viviana Puello and Chief Editor Yadira Roman for letting me have a whole page (instead of half page) as they love my art and deeply appreciate my ongoing efforts to bring my unique “HealingArts” to people all over the World! I am grateful to David Ryklan, a Founder of SelfGrowth.com Platform, who’s been trying his best (though it’s been yet unsuccessful) to help me locate some networking, funding and sponsorship sources for my HealingArts. I am grateful to a possible Sponsor/Patron Suzanne Sabbatini, who tried to organize and sponsor my 3 Solo Show (In Orlando FL, Brooklyn NY, and Rome Italy) which all were canceled due to COVID. [I had 3 “One Woman Show” Exhibitions scheduled and even partially furnished with my art in Orlando, FL where to I delivered and hanged about 100 pieces, also in Brooklyn NY and Rome Italy – all were CANCELED. I also had 3 group Shows in Ft Lauderdale scheduled via Dacota which I’ve been trying to organize for over 3 years!] I am also very grateful to her former associate Tony Smoothers, a Marketing Director @ www.gomosaic.com, who was very helpful in organizing my 1st Show in Orlando, and put a lot of effort for it to be successful (it was canceled due to COVID). I apologize if I might’ve forgotten some other people on my Journey. Thank you again!
I create art for healing – isn’t it what we all need NOW, in our turbulent crazy times?? I’ve been doing this for over 25 years, last 15 years professionally. I do believe that my unique #HealingArts by #HelenKagan is SO NEEDED everywhere now – first of all in HealthCare, then Hospitality & Residential Markets, offices, buildings… And I keep trying really hard to get through and reach out, to bring my unique “HealingArts” to people in need.
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