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Between the Seen and the Unseen: Andrea Mitchell on Color, Healing, and Art as Activation

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.

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Letting the Light In: Cecil Ybanez on Art, Identity, and Finding Beauty in the Everyday

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.

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Chefas Projects Presents “Meet Me at the Mothership” by Emily Wise

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.

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Daniel Arsham: How to Break Into the Art World and Build a Career Nobody Can Ignore

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.

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