About Kay
Kay Kinderman is an artist, death midwife, living funeral practitioner, death cafe facilitator and hospice LNA. She has been involved in the healing arts for decades and has found her calling in deathwork and community death education. Kay is an alumna of Nine Keys Death Midwifery Apprenticeship with Narinder Elizabeth Bazen and also mentored by Emily Cross of Steady Waves Center.
Always supportive of deep listening and of opening up spaces for people to share their stories, Kay is particularly interested in how Living Funeral Ceremonies can nourish our society’s hunger for ceremony and ritual. She has held numerous ceremonies at locations throughout the Monadnock region and beyond.
Kay lives on unceded Abenaki land in the Monadnock region.
Kay’s artwork revolves around her belief that both the tender and jagged belong. Grief deserves reverence, as does joy. All deaths deserve honoring, just as births are celebrated. The both/and is always present. Kay is also inspired by the unapologetic beauty and rawness of nature.
Below are some examples of Kay’s work.
Charcoal and pastel on paper
2022
Grief
Watercolor and pressed flowers on paper
2022
Touchstone
Skull Portraits-Animal Icons
Acrylic, sharpie and india ink on wood
2019