Artist and MexiCali Biennial co-founder Ed Gomez joins Your Art Is a Spell to explore Paranormal Borders, border art, ghost stories, alienness, artist-run institutions, and the collective power to create the worlds we need.

In this episode of Your Art is a Spell, Eli The Gender Doula shares how to bring magic, threshold care, and sacred ritual to gender transition and self-discovery.

Feeling creatively stuck, uninspired, or unsure what comes next in your art practice? Tarot can be more than a divination tool—it can offer prompts, perspective, creative momentum, and loving support. In this episode of Your Art Is a Spell, I share three ways to work with tarot when your art needs a spark.

Someone is profiting off the idea that your pain makes better art — and it's not you. In this episode, we break down who really benefits from the "suffering artist" myth, from the art market to the wellness industry, and reframe art block as a natural cycle rather than a crisis. If you've ever felt guilty for making something joyful, this one's for you.

I used to believe I wasn't a real artist because a second-grade teacher told me I couldn't color within the lines. Years later, an MFA program at UC Berkeley taught me the opposite: technique matters far less than vision. Here's what actually separates working artists from everyone else.

A lot of artists carry the same private fear: maybe my work is too weird, too interdisciplinary, or too underdeveloped for a bigger room. But artist residencies aren't just for conventional creators. They are portals that fundamentally rearrange what feels possible. Here is a map of how these protected containers can change your life, alongside the raw reality of my recent three-month journey through Europe and New York.

Every culture that has ever existed on this earth has made art — and magic. These were never two separate things. In this episode, we walk through Berlin's Humboldt Forum to feel what happens to living emergence when it gets placed behind glass, and why the life force never fully leaves.

What happens when the platforms we rely on vanish overnight? In this intimate conversation, Edgar Fabián Frías and Paris-based artist Anne Horel dive into the heartbreak and beauty of creating art in the digital age. From Vine fame to AI-generated spells, Anne shares how her work bridges magic, activism, and glitch aesthetics—and why even digital loss holds its own kind of power.