On this episode of the Create! Podcast, Maryland Art Place Executive Director Amy Cavanaugh shares her transition from touring cellist to arts leader and discusses the vital role of physical art spaces.

The Untitled Space presents IN FULL BLOOM, a group exhibition featuring 34 women artists exploring floral and botanical imagery as a site of transformation, identity, and power. On view in Tribeca, New York, with a Tribeca Gallery Night opening May 15, 2026.

Create! Magazine's 2026 Women's Edition features 42 contemporary women artists, six in-depth interviews, and guest curation by internationally recognized art collector and advisor Sonia Borrell. Available now as a digital subscription and print on demand through Amazon.

Explore Vanessa McKernan’s latest exhibition, The Wanderer, featuring intuitive oil paintings that intermingle dreams, personal history, and the archetypal feminine psyche. Discover the artist’s process of "archaeological" layering and her recent move to the Ottawa Valley.

Introducing the new interview series BOUNDLESS, where we chat with artists across the US who run their own galleries, recontextualizing these art spaces as key elements of an artist’s creative practice.

Andrea Mitchell has spent decades at the intersection of visual art, somatic therapy, and energy healing. Working in collage, watercolor, stained glass, and mixed media from New York City, she builds layered works that ask viewers to sense what they cannot immediately see. In this interview, she talks about intuition as a creative tool, color as a carrier of frequency, and why the best art — like the best healing — unfolds at the pace the viewer is ready for.

Cecil Ybanez has lived many lives — physical therapist, Pilates instructor, interior designer, gallery owner — before arriving, fully, at the one he was always moving toward: artist. In this interview, the Filipino-American creator talks about translucent materials, precolonial Filipino culture, found objects that tell their own stories, and why he wants every viewer to leave believing they have everything they need to make art of their own.

How have artists always paid for their creative lives? Mason Currey shares the surprising, centuries-old history of art, money, and making it work.

Fine art photographer and Studio Chamiilleon founder James Miille joins the Create Podcast to talk about his surrealist process, the emotional through line driving his work, and how artists can build a sustainable creative business without giving up control.

Abstract impressionist painter Emily Jeffords returns to the Create! Podcast to share how she built a sustainable six-figure art business on her own terms, her approach to commissions, and how to protect your creative energy for the long haul.

Chefas Projects presents Meet Me at the Mothership, a new solo exhibition by Portland-based artist Emily Wise. Through radiant, high-chroma paintings, Wise explores femininity, maternal presence, and the symbolic language of nature. Blending mythology, memory, and surreal landscapes, her work invites viewers into contemplative spaces where connection, care, and transformation unfold.

Create! Magazine Issue #55, the Winter Solstice Edition, is here. Curated by Sarah Potter, this issue features in-depth interviews with painters, a photographer, and gallerist Tanya Weddemire alongside 37 artists exploring resilience, light, and the contemporary art world.

Artist Daniel Arsham shares how he built his own gallery at 21, landed representation with Galerie Perrotin, and created a global art career on his own terms. In this episode of The Create! Podcast, he talks about his new book Future Relic, why failure is a superpower, how brand collaborations funded his practice, and what it really takes to break into the art world - no connections required.

Artist and author Lisa Solomon joins the Create! Podcast to talk about the art vs. craft debate, calling yourself an artist, creative experimentation, and building a sustainable creative life.

Create! Collective presents In Good Company, a group exhibition featuring 45 contemporary artists on Artsy. Explore original paintings, mixed media, and works on paper.

For Bay Area painter Ali Hall, the California coastline is both subject and sanctuary. Working in atmospheric abstract realism, she transforms ocean horizons and shifting skies into softened, immersive memories shaped by light and emotion. What began as a personal return to painting during a period of recovery has evolved into a deeply intentional practice centered on restoration, reflection, and connection. In this conversation, Hall shares how acrylic layering, intuitive mark-making, and creative wellness workshops all stem from a desire to create moments of stillness in a fast-moving world.

Under vast prairie skies and shimmering northern lights, Nicki Ault finds her deepest sense of belonging. Based in Saskatoon, the contemporary Canadian painter creates luminous landscapes that act as visual love letters to the Earth. Guided by intuition, memory, and a profound emotional connection to the natural world, Ault translates late afternoon light, boreal forests, and endless grasslands into paintings filled with warmth and humanity. In this heartfelt conversation, she reflects on discovering her identity as a Highly Sensitive Person, embracing spontaneity in the studio, and reaching major milestones that affirmed her path as a full-time artist.

Join Ekaterina Popova and Marina Granger for a candid talk on rewiring abundance beliefs, using astrology for art career success, and shifting your identity to become a magnetic artist. Step into your next-level career with practical art world strategy and mindset tools.