Kala Cree Cullars, is an abstract expressionist, and just plain abstract. Her work is honest. She holds a MA in Forensic Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Kala is a Licensed Professional Counselor passionate about reducing disparities in mental health care. She serves women of color in her private practice and provides trauma-informed treatment to adolescent males in residential care, centering healing, equity, and culturally responsive care through an outside-the-box approach that serves intentionally beyond the margins. Kala’s work is intended to free people…from the societal scar tissue of perfectionism, liberating them to express and explore with curiosity and non-judgment. Her art is a deep dive into the often disowned and repressed parts of self, a journey into the shadowed corners of the psyche where trauma, memory, and identity intersect. Each piece serves as a mirror, reflecting fragments of the human experience while inviting the viewer to confront their own ghosts. Through layered textures, haunting imagery, and deliberate symbolism, she challenges the viewer to sit with the master teacher of discomfort. In this way, art becomes both a reckoning and a reclamation—a call to integrate what has been buried so as to find wholeness in the fragmented sentences of our narratives.

Her work serves to free people from the societal scar tissue of perfectionism, liberating them to express and explore with wildness and curiosity. She creates reality on the immaterial and material planes. Her pixels and poems have been featured in various literary magazines and books. Her latest poetry book is entitled, “Memoir of a Ghost”. Kala’s work is meant to remind people of the truth of who they are: spirit housed in the body. Her highest intention is to inspire people to connect with their own divinity and creativity. It is also intended to meet the viewer at the intersection of pain purged with purpose.