The Create! Podcast

Join Kat and Alicia on a candid episode where we take you behind the scenes of running a gallery, magazine, and other small art organizations. We talk about common misconceptions, challenges, and the good parts.

Kat is an artist, founder of Create! Magazine and coach. Alicia is a curator, writer, and CEO of PxP Contemporary.

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Join Kat and Volta on an empowering episode to help you unleash creativity, release self-doubt and start creating the art you've always dreamed of!

Originally from Moldova, Volta is the founder of Color Snack and her mission to watercolor the world can be seen in the various projects such as brand activations, custom illustrations and animated GIFs that she creates for national and international brands (like Dallas Mavericks and Michaels Stores). She has taught thousands of students in her online and in-person watercolor workshops, where she encourages everyone to rediscover their inner artist.

She has been featured in D Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, Create Magazine and others. And she is frequently interviewed on the topics of creativity, entrepreneurship and mindset.

Volta is the creator of Watercolor Meditations, a concept and online class that combines breathing exercises with watercolor techniques for a calming and relaxing experience.

Volta is also the co-author of Art+Affirmations, a creativity journal with prompts to explore and live a creative life. She has illustrated a paper weaving kids activity book that inspires a calm and centering experience.

And most recently, Volta wrote her first book, titled Watercolor Snacks, which is expected to be published in July of 2021.

Volta's podcast show - Art, Snacks + Affirmations - is a space where she helps artists and creative entrepreneurs level up and build a resilient mindset. She also is a co-host to a live Instagram show where she and her husband share cocktail recipes and then teach others how to paint them.

Ingrid V. Wells earned her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from Arizona State University. Her work fancies the fantastic and humorous in theme and the charming, the kitschy, and the celebrity in subject. Wells's paintings investigate the world of gendered consumerism and the ethics of fascination. Her work has been shown in the Bay Area at Voss Gallery, New York at the Untitled Space, PULSE Miami with Treat Gallery, and internationally in South Korea at the CICA Museum. Her work has been featured by The Jealous Curator, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail, BUST Magazine, El País, Create! Magazine and Teen Vogue, among others. Wells is a multiple-time grant recipient from the Center for Cultural Innovation. She manages San Francisco Artists Studios, enjoys teaching advanced painting courses with SFAI's Public Education program, and runs TWIRL: A Decade of Artists Interviews. Wells currently lives and works in San Francisco.

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Join Kat and Jenée-Daria Strand and learn about the ambitious young curator's story and vision for a more inclusive art world. Discover her role at the Brooklyn Museum and get behind the scenes of her daily life in New York!

Jenée-Daria Strand is the Curatorial Assistant for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum where she supports in the research and organization of numerous exhibitions. She has worked on projects examining Black subjectivity through historical precedents, including her first independent co-curation of what once was in August of 2019 (Gloria Gail Gallery, NYC). Jenée-Daria aims to expand her knowledge of art history, and integrate her interests in performative practices, to examine performance within the museum setting. She serves on the Dance/NYC Junior Committee and holds a BFA from Florida State University.

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Get to know Czech artist and founder of Art Mums United, Mona Lerch! Mona shares her story, motherhood, why it's so essential to create a safe space and celebrate art mums.

This episode will inspire you to build your own community and go after your big dreams!

Mona Lerch is a self-taught contemporary artist currently residing in Brno, Czech Republic.

After having completed her studies in Australia and the UK, she returned to the Czech Republic to pursue her career as an internal security specialist.

​Originally a dance choreographer, painting was not an obvious artistic path for her; however, she has been drawing inspiration from movement, emotions and senses just as she used to do when creating choreographies.

Mona concentrates on abstract oil painting. She uses both life and work experiences to give shape to unique pieces of artwork that are characterized by elaborate structure and layers. Her paintings are intuitive and offer space for the viewer's imagination.

Being a nature lover and a passionate advocate of ecological lifestyle, she digs deep into her fantasy to materialize her own inner world on canvas. Her mission is to create a narrative embodying the beauty we have around us that we forget to see and to break the boundaries between the body and mind.

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Join painter Halie Torris and Kat on a candid episode in which we discuss art, spirituality, the courage to share your story, and more.

Halie Torris is a contemporary artist working in oils. Halie experienced a spiritual awakening that shifted her ideas and concepts towards the subconscious mind and inner stillness. In 2020, she openly accepted her sexuality and publicly posted about the influence that being a part of the LGBTQ community has had on her self-acceptance.

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In this episode, Alicia returns as a guest host to interview Heather Polk. Heather is a sales and marketing professional with an active art practice that fills her nights and weekends. She resides in Chicago where she relocated from Atlanta almost ten years ago. She is working toward establishing a small art studio that will deliver programming for sufferers of chronic disease so that they, and their caretakers, may utilize the empowerment of artistic creativity as a vital part of their disease management. Her art practice is centered around collage and abstract painting.

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Join Kat and Samantha on an empowering episode and learn how nutrition can fuel your art and creativity. We chat about healing on a cellular level, feeling amazing, and creating our life's work from a place of love and wellness.

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Samantha Otero is a Plant-Based Nutritionist and Holistic Coach whose passion is found in guiding artists, entrepreneurs, and mothers on their healing journeys toward optimal self-expression. Her own healing journey of overcoming an autoimmune disease, generational trauma, and narcissistic abuse has shown her the power of the mind/body connection.

She firmly believes we can be our own best healers through intuitively eating nutrient-dense foods, releasing mental limitations, engaging in daily spiritual practice as well as ultimately seeing ourselves as the Boss Queens that we are. Self-image is everything!

Samantha is a Nuyorican currently residing in Indiana with her daughter and fiancé. Along with experiential knowledge and a lifelong spiritual practice, her college studies founded in biology, psychology, and neuroscience heavily inform her coaching practice. She's currently obsessed with Islamic Geometric Design and the ways in which Biology informs Thought and Design.

In this episode, Alicia returns as a guest host to interview writer, author, and speaker, Mari Andrew!

Mari grew up in Seattle, went to college in Chicago, taught English in Chile, and spent a few years working in Baltimore and DC before eventually deciding to move to New York, which is where she currently lives and works. Her first book, Am I there yet?, is a collection of observations from being in her 20s and navigating the murky waters of dating, heartbreak, grief, moving, finding community, and creating home in a studio apartment. She has led workshops on creativity, healing, and personal resilience, and has two signature courses on Skillshare. Mari recently wrote her second book when she was recovering from illness and finding home within herself. Transitioning us through all the phases of the sky—twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn—"My Inner Sky" is a collection of essays that parallels these with all of the moments, be it small, momentous, heartbreaking, anxiety-inducing, or healing, that life brings our way. It invites us to reconnect with the in-between that happens in the everyday. "My Inner Sky" is now available!

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Tune in and get powerful tips from Kat on how to embody your next level of success in your art career and beyond.

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