Your Art Is A Spell

Welcome to Your Art Is A Spell, the podcast that ignites inspiring and transformative conversations about art as a magical practice. I'm your host, Edgar Fabián Frías—a multi-passionate artist, witch, therapist, and proud mutant shape-shifter. My art spells have reached audiences through social media, billboards, and skyscrapers and have even been placed on the surface of the moon! Join us as we explore how reclaiming your unique artistic voice and embracing bold creativity can transform your life and the world around you. Subscribe to the podcast and sign up for our newsletter at www.yourartisaspell.com to stay connected!

Your Art Is A Spell is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #6

  Who Profits From Artists' Pain?

  Aug 11, 202613 minS2

  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 "tortured genius" myth was built inside a white, Western, mostly male tradition, yet is still used to measure marginalized artists, who are often expected to turn their identity and suffering into content just to be taken seriously. Edgar also reframes the art block: not a crisis or a personal failure, but a normal, cyclical part of the creative process that sometimes just means you need rest. The takeaway: joy, play, and rest aren't the opposite of serious art, they're acts of resistance against a system that needs you depleted to keep producing. Join the free community & newsletter: mutant-magic.com Support the podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/yourartisaspell #ArtistWellness #CreativeProcess #ArtBlock #MutantMagic #ArtistsOnYouTube Chapters 00:00 Who profits from artists' pain? 02:15 The art market's reliance on trauma narratives 05:00 Navigating sensitivities and gifts as an artist 06:36 Joy and rest as acts of resistance 07:00 Refusing to participate in exploitative systems 08:08 Reframing art blocks as cycles, not failures 09:20 Healing enhances, it doesn't diminish art 10:05 Building supportive artist communities 11:00 Challenging pressure to perform pain 12:06 Your art as a spell and a life changer Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/edgarfabianfrias/ To Watch / Listen to More Episodes from Your Art Is A Spell https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVN8TPFy9dYKoNr4LjNV9yDajN-ILKNR&si=1WF6GkfQh2pGfrzl To send me a voice note https://www.speakpipe.com/YouArtIsASpell To learn more about me and my art www.yourartisaspell.com To learn about my private practice Therapy With Edgar www.therapywithedgar.com ️ Follow Me on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/edgarfabianfrias.org

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  Episode #4

  The Algorithm Wants A Brand. Your Soul Wants Chaos.

  Jul 28, 202648 minS2

  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, AuDHD, Patreon, full-time art life, and how to make expansive art in a world of algorithms, genres, and rigid systems that want you small and easy to consume. 00:00 – Intro: The Algorithm Wants a Brand. Your Soul Wants Chaos Artists, witches, multi-passionates vs niche, brand, and algorithm pressure. 02:33 – Meet Colin Frangicetto Multidisciplinary artist, musician of the band Circa Survive, and visual artist with many names: ADHD, SpaceCase, ColinCosmic. 05:28 – Monikers, Personas, and New Band Energy Why artists use pseudonyms, “shiny new” energy, and resisting being easy to consume. 09:58– Leaving the Old Identity: Courage and Collapse Devastation, closure, and choosing new creative identities despite industry expectations and branding. 12:24– Colin sharing about his journey creating digital art, Hic et Nunc, tezos, cryptoart, and where his name ADHD came from. 14:49 – The transience of everything and artists obsessing over being remembered and trying to curate how that will happen 16:06– Challenging the fear of Being Forgotten, Spiritual Surrender, Sacred Comedy LSD experience, collectivism vs individual identity, releasing legacy anxiety. 21:46– ADHD Hyper Layered Art Practice: Collage, Inset Series, Digital Hoarding Screenshots, archiving, multi-layered digital collage, excavation, and abstraction. 25:15– Retrocausality, Determinism, and Creative Flow Trusting the subconscious, letting go of over-editing, and escaping aesthetic boxes. 29:18– Research Mode, Input/Output, and Capitalism Fatigue Experimentation, films, books, archiving, and struggling with releasing work in a formal market. 32:58– Circa Survive Hiatus, Reunion, and Performing as Spiritual Reset Band breakup and return, friendship mending, loud music as church-like catharsis. 35:28 – Full-Time Artist Life, Grief, Stability, and Patreon Losing Benny, carving time for humans and animals, sustaining full-time art, and Colin’s Patreon (colincosmic). 42:52– Reflections from Edgar about conversation with Colin Being in tune with our resistance and with what we need to support those parts of us that feel resistant or afraid. The burden of being known as an artist in a certain way and the lift and hard work it takes to build another persona or career. I also share about Mutant Magic and how it connects to my own need to have a container / shield to share vulnerable parts of myself. Check out Colin's Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/colincosmic Join the Mutant Magic newsletter and membership space: https://mutant-magic.com Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/edgarfabianfrias/ To Watch / Listen to More Episodes from Your Art Is A Spell https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVN8TPFy9dYKoNr4LjNV9yDajN-ILKNR&si=1WF6GkfQh2pGfrzl To send me a voice note https://www.speakpipe.com/YouArtIsASpell To learn more about me and my art www.yourartisaspell.com To learn about my private practice Therapy With Edgar www.therapywithedgar.com ️ Follow Me on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/edgarfabianfrias.org If this episode supported you, please share it with a friend who needs to hear it. And leave us a review, it helps more artists, witches, and weirdos hear this podcast! Your art is a spell, and it will change the world around us.

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  Episode #3

  How Artist Residencies Change Your Life

  Jul 21, 202628 minS2

  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 reality of my recent three-month residency portal through Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, and New York. From working with sacred archives and somatic displacement in Europe to timeline jumping with Web3 and NFTs in NYC, we cover how these protected containers can pull you out of survival mode and place your art back at the center. We also get real about the hard parts: loneliness, logistical challenges, and the heavy energetic toll of confronting historical trauma in institutional spaces. If you are an interdisciplinary, working-class, neurodivergent, queer, or wonderfully weird artist wondering if you belong in these spaces—this map is for you. ✨ JOIN MUTANT MAGIC ✨ Ready for more direct support with artist statements, residency applications, and building a sustainable, unconventional creative life? Join my new Ghost-based newsletter and membership space. (If you are already on my mailing list, you've automatically been added to the free tier, Mutant Dispatches !) https://mutant-magic.com Thumbnail photo by Maximilian Rauschenbach | Künstlerhaus Bethanien 00:00 Intro: Why Artist Residencies Will Change Your Life 02:39 What Actually is an Artist Residency? 07:51 Early Proof: How Fellowships Shape Art Careers 09:57 My 3-Month European Residency Portal 11:33 Berlin: Sacred Archives and Confronting History 13:58 Warsaw: Displacement, Rituals, and the Nervous System 17:15 New York: NFTs, Web3, and Timeline Jumping 18:53 The Hidden Magic of Artistic Uncertainty 20:45 Reality Check: The Hard Parts of Artist Fellowships 22:23 Is an Artist Residency Right for Your Practice? 25:43 Final Advice: Taking the Leap and Applying To Watch / Listen to More Episodes from Your Art Is A Spell https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVN8TPFy9dYKoNr4LjNV9yDajN-ILKNR&si=1WF6GkfQh2pGfrzl To send me a voice note https://www.speakpipe.com/YouArtIsASpell To learn more about me and my art www.yourartisaspell.com To learn about my private practice Therapy With Edgar www.therapywithedgar.com Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/edgarfabianfrias/ ️ Follow Me on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/edgarfabianfrias.org If this episode supported you, please share it with an artist friend who needs to hear this. And leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, doing so helps us expand our web and helps more artists, just like you, get this message. Your art is a spell, and it will change the world around us.

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  Episode #2

  Art Is Living Emergence

  Apr 20, 202616 minS2

  <p>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?</p><p><br>Every culture that has ever existed on this earth has made art. And almost without exception, every culture that has ever made art has also practiced magic. These were neve...

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  How Queer Artists Have Used Art Spells For Liberation For Over 100 Years

  Apr 14, 202620 minS2

  <p>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 reveals how queer, trans, and gender-expansive artists have long used the esoteric to build worlds where they were once excluded. From the tarot of Rachel Pollack to my own social practice ritual...

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