Kat
@katparent.bsky.social
multimedia artist, deep-dive nerd, swamp seedling 🌱
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trying a lockstitch sewing awl on the busted seam of my favorite work boots, from a box of vintage leatherworking tools my aunts gave me. It's easier than I expected, and if this repair holds up I'll definitely be using it on more household mending! #awl #repair #leatherwork #mending #shoerepair
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
trying a lockstitch sewing awl on the busted seam of my favorite work boots, from a box of vintage leatherworking tools my aunts gave me. It's easier than I expected, and if this repair holds up I'll definitely be using it on more household mending! #awl #repair #leatherwork #mending #shoerepair
@seemore.bsky.social edited me into this picture of one of my green dye bath experiments like a Victorian ghost photo and I feel so seen 👻💚🧟♀️ #dyeing #prociondye #swampling #swampthing #green #spookyart #horrorart #textileart #goblincore #moss
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@seemore.bsky.social edited me into this picture of one of my green dye bath experiments like a Victorian ghost photo and I feel so seen 👻💚🧟♀️ #dyeing #prociondye #swampling #swampthing #green #spookyart #horrorart #textileart #goblincore #moss
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My giant summer project is up at Our Saviour's on Chicago! a canvas map mural surrounded by local children's dreams for the world. It's designed to be taken down regularly and knelt around/on for peace and solidarity prayers. More permanent hanging system to come 🌍 #kidsart #mural #communityart
September 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My giant summer project is up at Our Saviour's on Chicago! a canvas map mural surrounded by local children's dreams for the world. It's designed to be taken down regularly and knelt around/on for peace and solidarity prayers. More permanent hanging system to come 🌍 #kidsart #mural #communityart
Made #liveart this weekend to my friend Kenny's piano improvisations, and tested my supplies in extra heat and humidity 😅 Inspirations: maple buds amid hazy spring storms, grief and the Malvina Reynolds tune "The World's Gone Beautiful [because it's asking not to die]" #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia
July 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Made #liveart this weekend to my friend Kenny's piano improvisations, and tested my supplies in extra heat and humidity 😅 Inspirations: maple buds amid hazy spring storms, grief and the Malvina Reynolds tune "The World's Gone Beautiful [because it's asking not to die]" #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia
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for twin cities friends: we're playing a free, outdoors, all-ages show on wednesday, july 23 at silverwood park. 6:30-8pm.
secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers
secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers
July 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
for twin cities friends: we're playing a free, outdoors, all-ages show on wednesday, july 23 at silverwood park. 6:30-8pm.
secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers
secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers
A truly wondrous week making stuffies with grades K-4 as a teaching artist at S Mpls Day Camp! Such a treat to watch students develop their projects over 5 sessions ✨💖✨ #kidsart #stuffie #plushie #textileart #artteacher #artproject
June 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A truly wondrous week making stuffies with grades K-4 as a teaching artist at S Mpls Day Camp! Such a treat to watch students develop their projects over 5 sessions ✨💖✨ #kidsart #stuffie #plushie #textileart #artteacher #artproject
It's hammock weather + I'm surrounded by tree tassels and trilliums with my old friends the Bolt Weevils sweet tunes in my head. They're having a rare reunion show and I'll be playing a set of original tunes (Fri bonus set: @too.oldcat!) 💖🌿🌸 come enjoy fab songwriting, queer joy and spring magic
May 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It's hammock weather + I'm surrounded by tree tassels and trilliums with my old friends the Bolt Weevils sweet tunes in my head. They're having a rare reunion show and I'll be playing a set of original tunes (Fri bonus set: @too.oldcat!) 💖🌿🌸 come enjoy fab songwriting, queer joy and spring magic
Happy May Day parade! upcycled a tablecloth into this Snufkin hat in honor of spring #moomin #snufkin #mumrik #maydayparade
May 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Happy May Day parade! upcycled a tablecloth into this Snufkin hat in honor of spring #moomin #snufkin #mumrik #maydayparade
A little art quilt about grief and precarity...I had this idea for a tiny soft quilted moving box full of deep purple scrap quilt sky and stars. #artquilt #softsculpture #griefquilt #scrapquilt #textileart #movingbox
April 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A little art quilt about grief and precarity...I had this idea for a tiny soft quilted moving box full of deep purple scrap quilt sky and stars. #artquilt #softsculpture #griefquilt #scrapquilt #textileart #movingbox
2012 painting of a nesting swan I met in Norway #painting #acrylicpainting #coloredpencil #mixedmedia #swan #nesting
April 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
2012 painting of a nesting swan I met in Norway #painting #acrylicpainting #coloredpencil #mixedmedia #swan #nesting
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Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Another big quilt project complete this month: this starry night quilt for my partner's mom, made entirely of the brightest and darkest pieces from my scrap box. #scrapquilt #quilt #stardustshinequilt #modernquilt #textileart #griefquilt
March 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Another big quilt project complete this month: this starry night quilt for my partner's mom, made entirely of the brightest and darkest pieces from my scrap box. #scrapquilt #quilt #stardustshinequilt #modernquilt #textileart #griefquilt
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
"Premonition", painting of a scene/vibe from my favorite Nosferatu remake (Herzog, 1979). Acrylic and colored pencil on wood. #painting #horrorart #plagueart #nosferatu #existentialdread #insomnia
March 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Premonition", painting of a scene/vibe from my favorite Nosferatu remake (Herzog, 1979). Acrylic and colored pencil on wood. #painting #horrorart #plagueart #nosferatu #existentialdread #insomnia
Memory quilt for my sister, full of childhood scraps. Includes scraps of school uniforms, dresses our mom sewed us, and lace from the princess dress-up we wore to play board games / throw dice at eachother. Pattern is Felix, a variation of Cats Cradle #memoryquilt #scrapquilt #upcycled #modernquilt
March 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Memory quilt for my sister, full of childhood scraps. Includes scraps of school uniforms, dresses our mom sewed us, and lace from the princess dress-up we wore to play board games / throw dice at eachother. Pattern is Felix, a variation of Cats Cradle #memoryquilt #scrapquilt #upcycled #modernquilt
"God bless the grass that grows through the crack..." 2021 painting inspired by a Malvina Reynolds resistance song, for a downtown church. It's never felt quite done...
February 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"God bless the grass that grows through the crack..." 2021 painting inspired by a Malvina Reynolds resistance song, for a downtown church. It's never felt quite done...
Memory quilt for my mom made of scraps saved from special old garments and clothes she sewed for us. #quilting #scrapquilting #memoryquilt #textileart #griefart #entropyquilt
February 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Memory quilt for my mom made of scraps saved from special old garments and clothes she sewed for us. #quilting #scrapquilting #memoryquilt #textileart #griefart #entropyquilt
Spending time learning about the decomposers that creep me out (worms, fungi, scavengers, microbes) and how lifegiving they are in our ecosystems. Endings and change can bring abundant new life. 2022, pen and watercolor drawing #ecohorror #inkdrawing #horrorart #spookyart #swampling
February 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Spending time learning about the decomposers that creep me out (worms, fungi, scavengers, microbes) and how lifegiving they are in our ecosystems. Endings and change can bring abundant new life. 2022, pen and watercolor drawing #ecohorror #inkdrawing #horrorart #spookyart #swampling