Katherine Hanks Studio

Katherine Hanks Studio Interdisciplinary Artist | Embodiment + Earth + Matrescence | Sculpting The Wilds of Motherhood

08/08/2026

a personal reflection on playfulness as a spiritual practice as a means to open up the creative channel.

in case you needed it, here’s your permission to seek out play and pleasure and fun and laughter :)


(not referenced in video but it also feels worth naming—I’m not blind to the privilege in being able to tap into playfulness. It asks that your basic needs feel met, that there’s some baseline safety in your nervous system, in your body, in your community. That’s deep work and may necessitate a part two conversation on its own).

08/03/2026

I know I’m not the only parent out there driven to the brink of insanity by all the back to school organization and forms and communication and bus routes and bills and shopping and haircuts and 😵‍💫

Here’s how i’m coping. How ‘bout you?

08/02/2026

LINK at wavelength_space TO APPLY

Mother is a Universe is a concept born from an ongoing collaboration between me and artist mother Raquel Mullins, whose practices have become immersed in the miraculous transformations and bodily+spiritual rites of passage that accompany pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

This open call invites artists whose work connects with the sensual, earthly, spiritual, and instinctual dimensions of mothering. We are seeking works that explore the altered states of consciousness that can accompany becoming a mother; the paradox of becoming two while witnessing another life emerge into its own individuality; the invisible forces that shape growth, attachment, memory, nourishment, and transformation. We welcome work that reflects on motherhood not simply as identity or caregiving, but as an ancient rite and a profound experience that reveals the body as landscape, vessel, threshold, and cosmos.

Mother is a Universe speaks to the mysteries of how we are held, how unseen forces guide our becoming, and the tender, fleeting memory of infancy - when every sensation is new and survival is tethered to love itself. It is an exhibition about nourishment and becoming, intimacy and immensity, the infinitely small moments that  gesture toward the infinitely vast.

Co-Curated by Raquel Mullins and Katherine Hanks
Presented by wavelength_space
Deadline to apply Oct 3 at midnight

ocean studies. 1. coquina clam color study 2. sandwriting3 & 4. sandwriting ii5. fifteen minutes of stillness
07/30/2026

ocean studies.
1. coquina clam color study
2. sandwriting
3 & 4. sandwriting ii
5. fifteen minutes of stillness

ocean studies. july 2026. 1. coquina clam color study 2. sandwriting3. sandwriting ii4. fifteen minutes of stillness
07/30/2026

ocean studies. july 2026.
1. coquina clam color study
2. sandwriting
3. sandwriting ii
4. fifteen minutes of stillness

07/18/2026

saturday studio sesh with the kids. days like this aren’t usually this calm but sometimes the right music sets the right mood and quick magic can happen. throwing a few of these babies for a trimming demo later today

Happy Mother’s Day
05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day

Belly roundLimbs swollen with water,blood,fat,with life.My child grew and grewAnd this body, too—And my revulsion with u...
04/28/2026

Belly round
Limbs swollen with water,
blood,
fat,
with life.
My child grew and grew
And this body, too—
And my revulsion with us.
A glance at my form—
Body braced
Skin crawled.

My hands took to the clay
To the flesh of the earth
And I kneaded
Stroked
Squeezed
Scraped
Molded her
—and her body ached.
Bending
Lifting
Tilting
Craning
This body—
And another’s—
Danced around and around
That earth body
For days
Breathing her
Wet earth scent.
Her form
Became my own

Evening light
Dancing through leaves
And spreading across
Stretched
And dimpled skin—
Poetry for the eyes.
Soft ripples on the lake at sunrise
Soft ripples in the smooth damp clay
Soft ripples in my thighs.
They sing

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stoneware, terra sigillata, smoke and flame. Katherine Hanks.

Fall newsletter drops tomorrow morning. Contemplating the practice of release, clearing space, and what’s coming through...
11/11/2025

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