Your Art Is A Spell

Episode Timestamps 00:00 — Rethinking imposter syndrome: Who benefits from your self-doubt? 00:38 — Welcome back to Your Art Is a Spell 01:07 — Art and life updates: Tate Publishing and the MexiCali Biennial 03:44 — What imposter syndrome feels like 06:06 — The exhaustion of constantly proving yourself 07:13 — Looking beyond confidence: Labor, power, and inequality 09:56 — A personal story about e...

What happens when a society decides an education is only worth funding if it yields an immediate corporate paycheck? In this episode, we unpack the dangerous federal student loan policy direction tying student loan access to graduate earning thresholds, putting fields like fine art, music, therapy, social work, counseling, and early childhood education directly in the crosshairs. This isn’t just a...

We can still make art in the darkest of times, and that might be exactly when we need it most. When you feel depleted, scared, or overwhelmed by collective dread, play and sanctuary are deep, vital resources we still own. They don’t cost a dime, they require no permission, and no oppressive system can take them from your spirit. Reclaiming imagination one artwork at a time. In this episode of Your...

Why do you feel burned out even when you're "doing everything right"? In this episode of Your Art Is a Spell, host Edgar Fabián Frías breaks down why burnout and exhaustion are often not personal failures, but signs of extraction: from your labor, your attention, your money, and your imagination. This episode reframes what it really means to protect your energy. Instead of another spiritual bypass...

In this episode, Ed Gomez shares the inspiring story of the Mexicali Biennial, exploring how artists can create their own platforms and challenge borders, both physical and metaphorical, through art and activism. We delve into themes of border fence politics, collective trauma, creative expression, social commentary, hauntings, paranormal borders, and the power of artistic agency. Timestamps 00:00...

In this episode of Your Art is a Spell, Eli, The Gender Doula, shares insights into his journey and the significance of gender exploration. He discusses the role of rituals in supporting individuals through gender transitions and the launch of his new book, 'Gender Rituals.'  Eli emphasizes the importance of community support and the concept of trans audacity in creating change. The conversation h...

Feeling creatively stuck? In this episode of Your Art Is a Spell , I share how I use tarot not for prediction, but as a creative technology — a way to reignite your art practice when inspiration runs dry.  We'll walk through three simple practices: pulling a theme card to set the direction of your work, calling in a support card when a project feels heavy, and a two-card transition spread for when...

Someone is profiting off the idea that your pain makes better art, and it's not you. In this episode of Your Art As A Spell, Edgar breaks down who actually benefits when artists believe suffering is the price of being "real": the art market, institutions, and even the wellness industry that profits from healing the wounds artists were told they needed in the first place. We dig into how the "tortu...

If you feel stuck because you think you can't draw, the truth is you don't have a skill problem, you have an artistic mindset problem. In this episode of Your Art Is A Spell, we dismantle the myth that technical perfection is required to be a "real" artist, and reveal what the contemporary art world actually values. Growing up, many of us were told we were "messy" or couldn't color within the line...

In this episode of Your Art Is A Spell, Edgar Fabián Frías talks with artist and musician Colin Frangicetto Circa Survive (also known as ADHD, Space Case, and ColinCosmic) about resisting the pressure to become a single “brand” and staying true to your multi-passionate, witchy, chaotic creative self. They explore identity, pseudonyms, art practice, digital collage, abstraction, retrocausality, AuD...

Are you feeling stuck in your art practice or making work in the margins of your everyday life? In this episode of Your Art is a Spell , we explore why artist residencies and fellowships aren't just for "traditional" or highly funded creators—they are powerful portals that can fundamentally change what feels possible for your career and your nervous system. I’m sharing the raw, behind-the-scenes r...

What if art was never just art? In this episode of Your Art Is A Spell , I'm taking you with me to the Humboldt Forum in Berlin — one of the most beautiful and complicated buildings in the world — to explore a question that has been living in me since I arrived in this city: What is art, really, and what happens to it when it gets archived? Every culture that has ever existed on this earth has mad...

Welcome to Season 2 of Your Art Is A Spell. In this premiere episode, we introduce the concept of Tactical Magic, the use of ritual, art, and ancient wisdom as tools for survival and agency in difficult times. Join me on a journey to the Palm Springs Art Museum for the groundbreaking exhibition, Queer Arcana: Art, Magic & Spirit. Spanning over a century of work from 1909 to 2026, this show rev...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 21 You are not broken. You are becoming. This finale of Your Art Is a Spell reveals the sacred truth of mutation — how every act of art, imagination, and creation shifts timelines and transforms the world. Inspired by Octavia Butler, Mark Mothersbaugh, and cosmic astrology of 2025, this is your call to power. Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome to the Season Finale of Y...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 20 In this second-to-last episode of Your Art Is A Spell , Edgar Fabián Frías reflects on the wild magic of Season 1, shares a collective two-card tarot reading, and answers listener questions about creative blocks, ADHD focus, and healing money shame. Along the way, Edgar weaves in stories of psychic gifts, ancestral medicine, and the importance of building un...

Your Art Is A Spell  Season 1 Episode 19  In this episode of Your Art is a Spell, I’m joined by drag artist, educator, and witch Uma Gahd (Canada’s Drag Race Season 5). We dive into drag as ritual, Dionysian magic, chosen family, queer resilience, and what it means to stay authentic in a commercialized world. ✨🧙‍♀️🎭 🎭 Follow Uma Gahd: @umagahd and houseofgahd.com 🌐 Learn more & join the n...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 18 In this magical episode of Your Art Is A Spell, Edgar Fabián Frías sits down with the incredible Opal Starlight (they/them), a queer hairstylist, witch, and healer based in the Bay Area. Opal shares how they transformed their journey from working in celebrity salons to creating Magic Spell Studio, a deeply intentional space where hair becomes a ritual, a por...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 17 In this episode, “The Power of Belief: Awakening Your Psychic Gifts in a Time of Crisis,” I explore how belief shapes our psychic capacities—and why systems of control are so invested in suppressing them. From interspecies communication to remote viewing, from being in the G.A.T.E. program to experiencing spontaneous synchronicity with an A-list celeb, this...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 16 What if shadowbanning isn’t just an algorithmic glitch—but a curse? A silencing spell cast on witches, weirdos, and worldbuilders? And what if breaking that curse means reclaiming your visibility, your voice, and your magic—one uncensored post at a time? In this bold and galvanizing solo episode of Your Art Is A Spell , Edgar Fabián Frías invites us deep int...

Your Art Is A Spell  Season 1 Episode 15 Join Edgar Fabián Frías in conversation with Paris-based digital artist Anne Horel as they dive into AI art, AR filters, witchcraft, veganism, and the magic of making art in the post-internet age. From Vine to the Grand Palais, Anne shares her visionary practice and spells for the future. #AIart #DigitalWitchcraft #AnneHorel #YourArtIsASpell #ArtInterview #...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 14 Is your art more than just art? 🎨✨ In this episode of Your Art Is A Spell, Edgar Fabián Frías unpacks the power of art spells—creative acts infused with intention, feeling, and transformation. Discover how your creativity can become a portal, a protest, and a sacred force of change. 🌱🔮 Learn what makes an art spell, how to cast your own, and why your wei...

Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 13 Is this the future of art? 👁️🌐✨ We explore 3 mind-bending digital art exhibitions in LA—featuring AR, AI, glitches, and queer futurities—with artist  @lineadeluz of the  @TheSelfieInstitute as our guide. 🖼️ Featured Exhibitions: Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Nancy Baker Cahill:...

🔥 What if the stories we’ve been told about money and art are keeping us broke? In this episode of Your Art is a Spell, I’m breaking down 5 transformative money mindset shifts every artist needs to break free from financial struggle. So many artists are taught that making money means selling out… that art and business can’t mix… that struggling is a badge of honor. But what if those beliefs are t...

What if the way we resist capitalism is actually keeping us broke? In this episode, I dive deep into "punk damage" - that voice telling you making money equals selling out - and how it accidentally reinforces the very systems we're trying to dismantle. So many of you requested this topic in the comments, and I'm finally addressing the uncomfortable truth about how anti-capitalist shame can reinfor...

Have you ever felt like the system was deliberately keeping you broke? Like your creativity was being celebrated—but never compensated? What if the lack of financial education for artists isn’t an oversight… but a spell cast to keep us disempowered? In this no-holds-barred episode of Your Art is a Spell, we break the silence around the hidden forces keeping creatives financially illiterate—and how...