In this solo episode, Alicia shares one of her longest ongoing creative processes to date: 13 years of writing and editing a still unpublished picture book series. She takes you through the pivots and the pleasure of being inside a process that relies heavily on trust and intuition during her agonizingly detailed editing process. If you are a writer, this episode is for you. 

If you enjoyed this episode, please check out these other conversations with writers about their creative process:

Conversation with Author and Breathwork Guide Danielle Herring: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000556681578

Conversation with Children's Book Author Jonna Watson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000673610364

If you are an agent or a publisher you can reach Alicia at [email protected]

In this solo episode, Alicia grapples with her own personal difficulty witnessing creatives deny their creativity and she ponders ways that we can reimagine a creative process that can exist in our current lives. If you need a creative motivational boost, this is the episode for you.

If you want more of this kind of energy, join Alicia for a FREE online workshop: Monday August 25th at 9am PDT for 1 hour. Register here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25643833&appointmentType=74530187

If you'd like more information about the 10 week course (starts Sept. 8th) that will get you moving toward your next masterpiece, check it out here: https://square.link/u/D1GqlHsI

In this episode, Alicia continues her conversation with collaborator Omar Ramos as the two stage artists reveal the emerging process for their next performance piece. Listen in on where they are in their process and how they imagine this work unfolding, as they hold onto the optimistic view that the work already exists somewhere in the future.

Listen to the rest of the conversation with Omar Ramos: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000721190527

Sign up for the FREE Creative Rhythms workshop with Alicia on Monday, August 25th @ 9am pacific (recording will be available to anyone who can't make the workshop live): https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25643833&appointmentType=74530187

In this Episode, Alicia talks with friend and collaborator, Omar Ramos, a multi-hyphenate designer with a passion for integrating emerging technologies into stage performances. Omar speaks about his process when working to support the vision of directors, choreographers, or playwrights and the two artists dive into the details of dance pieces they've made together and how they support and challenge one another and the work they're making.

Check out the performances mentioned in this episode:

Untitled: Center of the Universe - https://youtu.be/QAij4QXIegM?si=2A3qXvd31jpV6zYn

Space Between (trailer) - https://vimeo.com/25787249

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To learn more about the work of Omar Ramos, please check out his website: https://www.omarramosdesign.com

To be in touch with Alicia, please feel free to email: [email protected] or find her on Instagram at @aliciapetersonbaskel

In this first episode of season 4, Alicia speaks frankly about the difficulties in motherhood of maintaining the creative process and seeing ourselves as artists when we are so enamored/distracted by the responsibility of caring for a child. Alicia shares her journey and the shifts that she made to keep making art including shifting genres, creating new processes, and finding ways to be creatively efficient. 

If you enjoy this episode, please check out these interviews with artist mothers who speak about how they balance motherhood and their creative process in our conversation. 

Conversation with Visual Artist Carolyn Mara: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000549121922

Conversation with Playwright Jennifer Barclay: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000551417037

Conversation with Opera Director Cynthia Stokes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000555095993

Please follow Alicia on Instagram at @Aliciapetersonbaskel

In this episode, Alicia shares her experience in witnessing and processing the dance piece EVEROTHERWISE by Leslie Seiters. Alicia shares how deeply she is moved by the humanity of this piece as she is transported into worlds she knows nothing about but is encouraged to witness with love. 

You may be interested in listening to Alicia's interview with Leslie Seiters before or after listening to this episode. 

Follow Alicia on Instagram at @aliciapetersonbaskel

In this episode, Alicia speaks about her delightful experience attending an intimate sharing of a work in process trio performance. She was invited to witness a WIP showing of the dance theatre piece, Best Worst Advice, and left satisfied and amazed that she was one of only a few to have witnessed THAT performance.  "I highly recommend that if you are in San Diego on July 12 or July 19, you go see it for yourself." - Alicia

Please consider donating to fund Best Worst Advice's journey to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

Find the fundraising information here: http://spot.fund/zgzk3wnsc

Find the Open Rehearsal/Performance information here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DL7hU8WuQ-h/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MXhxamt2ajc3OHk1aA==

Again, it's July 12 (open rehearsal) 3-5pm at the City Heights Performance Annex and July 19 (performance) 3-4pm at the City Heights Performance Annex. 

For more from Alicia Peterson Baskel - follow on Instagram: @aliciapetersonbaskel

In this episode, Alicia talks about that place in the middle or the process where things NEED to be allowed to be messy. She goes from her kid's school Art Show to her own experience making her thesis project in graduate school to watching Idina Menzel in the new musical Redwood last year and how ALL of these very different productions had to experience a messy middle and overcome it. 

The Messy Middle is that space in the process when you may know where you are headed, but its not showing up yet in performance, on paper, or in your art work. This is not an end point but rather a test of your own devotion to your work. Take the challenge. Go through it rather than avoiding it. 

Alicia also wants to invite you to join her for the second segment of Creative Rhythms; The Art of Pause, Play, & Epiphany which is all about how devotion/dedication supports or sabotages our creative process. If you are interested in learning more about this program, please visit:

https://square.link/u/D1GqlHsI

If you'd like to hear more from Alicia, please follow her on Instagram - @aliciapetersonbaskel

In this solo episode, Alicia speaks about the importance of being in the body when we create. So often, our society prizes the gifts of the mind but forgets the wisdom of the body. When we stop separating them into two parts of us, we can integrate the whole body at once and utilize all of us as we create our creations. 

This episode comes in response to studying the head center in Alicia's class Creative Rhythms. If you'd like to join the next three week segment of Creative Rhythms, we'd love to have you:

Sign up for April: https://square.link/u/D1GqlHsI

**Segment Two (April 7 - 25) Finding your Flow; How we align, commit, and emote in our creative process

Wk. 1 - G Center: An Artist's Compass

Wk. 2 - Heart Center: The Drive to Create

Wk. 3 - Solar Plexus Center: The Emotional Pulse of Art

In this solo episode, Alicia examines the human design charts of the actors from the movie WICKED, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera. Alicia has been obsessed with the movie since before it came out and even more after seeing it. When she saw the two main actors' human design charts, Alicia realized how they were truly made for these roles and designed to work together. 

If you are interested in looking at your own creative process through the Human Design lens, allowing more alignment into your practice and therefore more breakthroughs, join Alicia in her Course: Creative Rhythms; The Art of Pause, Play, & Epiphany! Class starts March 10th & the early bird bonus ends March 2nd! Check it out: https://square.link/u/D1GqlHsI

To pull up your own chart: https://www.geneticmatrix.com/free-foundation-chart/

If you enjoyed this episode, another episode you may be like is: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000669289666

To find Alicia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/