Artist Nishant Jain, known as The Sneaky Artist, shares how curiosity, detours, and secret sketchbooks can shape a meaningful creative practice and business.

Richmond-based artist Elizabeth Coffey creates evocative mixed media paintings that explore identity, duality, and the tension between the seen and unseen. Working with lace, oil paint, and graphite, her work reveals layers of meaning through material experimentation and narrative depth.

In this episode of The Create! Podcast, Kat Popova talks with Emily Williams, founder of I Heart My Life, about transforming failure into fuel, healing your money story, and learning to trust your desires as an artist. Listen now and explore Kat’s new money program for creatives at thecreatecollective.com/money.

Explore Create! Magazine Issue 53, a new release celebrating contemporary artists and curators shaping today’s art world. Featuring Ebony Russell, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, MAESTRO, and a curated section by Emily McElwreath, this issue highlights creativity, identity, and connection across the global art community.

Lauren Moses’ work bridges art, history, and music. Her layered paintings reimagine classical myths and allegories, capturing both beauty and tension. In this interview, Moses discusses her creative process, the influence of music on her art, and the ways her paintings invite viewers to reflect on inherited narratives and contemporary meaning.

In her enchanting creative universe, Sophia van der Bank—also known as Mrs. Helichrysum—invites viewers into Studio Black Stockings, a space where myth, femininity, and transformation intertwine. Through her dreamlike paintings and performative imagery, van der Bank explores the archetypes and rituals that shape our inner lives, blending humor and mystery to reimagine the feminine experience.

Lauren Cohen’s interdisciplinary practice spans painting, ceramics, and installation, exploring systems of power, identity, and belonging. Drawing from her New England childhood, she reconstructs domestic objects and maritime stories into dreamlike stage sets—blurring history and fiction to question what we inherit and what we can remake.

Rochester-based artist and writer Corinne Ann Bowen creates film photographs that transform the ordinary into the sacred. Guided by light, shadow, and the quiet rhythms of everyday life, her devotional practice explores how reverence can be found in fleeting moments and familiar spaces. In this conversation, Bowen reflects on patience, ritual, and the alchemy of analog photography.

Explore how shadow work can transform your art and creative life. In this Create! Podcast episode, Ekaterina Popova and author Chelsey Pippin Mizzi discuss The Shadow Path, Jungian psychology, and practical ways for artists to reconnect with their hidden creative power.

Author and Witch Wave host Pam Grossman joins the Create Podcast to discuss her new book Magic Maker, the link between magic and creativity, and practical rituals for artists.