The Create! Podcast

In this episode, Alicia returns as a guest host to interview Austin Kleon about his new audiobook trilogy. Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. He's also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. He's been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and done speaking engagements for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist.

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined your passions and created a community that serves other like-minded creatives? Hint: it's so worth it!

Join Kat and Victoria Fry on a new podcast episode. We talk all about being an artist, educator, and fusing the two fields.

Victoria is an artist and educator with a passion for lifting contemporary artists and educators. Being committed to a rigorous studio practice and serving the art community is not an easy path. Still, this artist is a true visionary who is creating positive change in the education system.

When Victoria is not in the studio, she teaches and grows her inspiring platform, the Visionary Art Collective.

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Join Kat (Ekaterina Popova) and painter Erika Lee Sears on a special episode. The artist shares the struggles and triumphs of being an artist during Covid, an exciting project for Lana Del Rey, and a recent collaboration with Guy Hepner/Tax Collection, and much more.

Tune in to get inspired and see how much is possible for you as an artist!

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Erika Lee Sears is an oil painter from Portland, OR who specializes in contemporary still life scenes. Known for her intimate oil depictions of 21st century everyday life and objects, Sears transforms the mundane and ordinary into fascinating and emotional works through her unique textures, point of view perspective, and mastery of lighting. Motherhood is a key driver for the art she creates; milk, laundry, peanut butter and jam sandwiches, and household items are the key protagonists to her paintings.

Kat shares her mindset shift from being driven by fear to taking mindful, inspired action from the heart. She continues the topic of overcoming "survival mode" and take you behind the scenes of creating her first signature course and what it was like!

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In this episode, Alicia chats with Dallas-based artist Bree Smith to dive into her background, career, and all of the steps she took to organize her own solo show in 2020.

Bree Smith is a Dallas-based painter and mixed media artist and has also recently begun working in murals and installation. Bree received her Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in 2007. Her current body of work focuses on futuristic themes inspired by her late father's love of science fiction, and often includes colorful astronauts set among imaginary and dreamlike space worlds. Bree pulls from her experience as a graphic and software experience designer to reconcile her need for control and perfection through the wild and fluid attributes of paint. She has been featured in several online and print publications including Dallas Style & Design Magazine, Voyage Dallas, PIKCHUR Magazine, and ArtFolio Annual.

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In today's episode, I'm sharing something very personal, my sobriety journey. I dive into why and how I finally let go of drinking alcohol and some of the positive side-effects of spending most of 2020 sober.

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P.S. If you need support, please reach out to someone you trust or call a professional. There is no shame in getting the help you need.

In this episode, Alicia hosts an interview with Jenna Morello to discuss building up her reputation as a muralist, the process behind the small resin sculptures she's become known for, and how she's made her art practice financially stable.

Jenna Morello is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York. She is equally at home creating large-scale bold, expressive walls as well as meticulously crafted sculptures. She mixes and matches multiple mediums to create nature-based, sometimes anatomical art that speaks for itself. Her work is sold internationally and her murals can be seen around the world. She has completed projects for such groups as The Ritz Carlton, The World Trade Center, Universal Music Group, Macy's, and The Superbowl and has been featured in The New York Times and Forbes.

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Alicia hosts an episode interviewing painter Shawna Gilmore.

Born and raised in the Upper Midwest, Shawna Gilmore draws deep from the winter-forged well of her overactive imagination. Her narrative, vintage-infused paintings explore many topics such as wonder, childhood, nature, patterns, and humor. Shawna graduated in 2000 from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a BFA in Studio Art and an emphasis on Drawing and Printmaking. She has exhibited both locally and nationally. Her work is part of private collections worldwide. Shawna lives with her verbally talented husband, Eddy, their twins, and a menagerie of critters in a lively neighborhood near lovely Lake Superior.

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Join Kat on this uplifting episode in which she shares a personal mindset shift that helped her go from survival mode and finally step into thriving.

Kat shares the patterns that kept her stuck for years and opens up about what mental shifts and healing helped her move on and overcome.

Recommended Reading: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Life & Loss: Exploring the Art of Motherhood with Brandi Hofer

Brandi Hofer is a Canadian artist who earned her BFA in 2008 from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax and has since exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Her main focus is figurative and portrait painting, where she explores themes of empowerment, the female psyche, and our emotional selves. Since she became a mother in 2014, Hofer has been involving her children in her painting process, creating a 44-piece series with her then 2-year-old son. She continues to be extremely prolific at her in-home studio, creating custom commissioned pieces, several bodies of self-motivated artworks, and more recently she has begun transitioning her art into murals as well.