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.