About

Kellen Grimm is interested in creative self-expression, healing, and justice as part of building a society based on care instead of capital. In this effort, Kellen practices painting, photography, writing, gardening, and Chinese medicine. They are one half of North Node Clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Kellen acknowledges that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present. Kellen further acknowledges the grave evil colonialism introduced to these lands through genocide as well as slavery, and also via racist and xenophobic beliefs, laws, and practices that continue to inflict harm upon Black, brown, and Indigenous lives. Kellen honors those who have lived—and do live, now—at these intersections of identity and experience, and are committed to the active dismantling of white supremacy.