Kate Sullivan
Kate Sullivan
Artist, Musician, Writer, & Beyond
“Mrs. Sullivan wanted her daughter Kate to take piano lessons and grow up to be a good wife and mother and teach Latin on the side. Kate did all those things but she had some trouble with a short attention span so she also learned French, Spanish and German and took up writing prose and poetry, then started to paint. …”
Kate Sullivan likes to play around with words, music, and pictures. She is a storyteller who uses a multimedia approach to touch audiences. A linguist by training (B.A. in French and Latin), she is also an award-winning composer and performer. Her one-woman theater piece about Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill won the Independent Reviewers of New England prize and her Fugitum Est was premiered by The Kremlin Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. She has also given many solo performances, from Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in New York, always singing and playing anything from the piano to the musical saw. Kate has been painting for many years, everything from portraits and landscapes to cartoons. She continues to work on her bossa nova guitar-playing and new books are popping up everywhere. Stay tuned!
Books
Books
A new collection of prose, poetry and essay. In SMOKE & MIRRORS, Kate Sullivan contemplates the joy of simple pleasures, the choices that shape our lives, memories of childhood, loss and grief, including reflections on mortality, the significance of relationships, the power of forgiveness, the passage of time and the inevitablitiy of aging. She muses on the challenge of finding one’s artistic voice and the desire to leave a lasting legacy through creative endeavors. The book is illustrated throughout with Sullivan’s full-color paintings and pen and ink sketches.
Available at Bookshop.org, Amazon, or your local bookstore.
A young person’s tour of a symphony orchestra, introduces ten quirky animal musicians rehearsing for a concert. The players include an eccentric hippo flautist, aa farmer-dog double bassist, a prim poodle French horn player, and a hip giraffe oboist, with a self-assured billy-goat as the conductor. Children will have fun learning about the instruments and the distinctive sounds they make. And don’t forget to watch the accompanying YouTube video!
On Linden Square
"It’s the first day of winter vacation and Stella Mae Culpepper is bored. As she looks out from the window of her second-floor apartment, she can see all of the usual happenings on Linden Square, her city neighborhood. There are her neighbors. She knows them all by name—or by the names she’s given them, depending on their activities and what Stella Mae can see from her window. Stella Mae thinks she knows her neighbors but she doesn’t really. Everyone in the neighborhood is too busy minding their own business to pay much attention to anyone else. But now it’s the first day of winter vacation and a storm is coming. Not just any storm but a big, wonderful winter storm. It’s a blizzard! And when the snow finally stops and Stella Mae ventures outside to play, something quite marvelous happens on Linden Square."
LISTEN TO KATE’S grandchildren tell you about ON LINDEN SQUARE :
Music
Music
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Paintings
Paintings
