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Your Art Is A Spell

Edgar Fabián Frías

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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 you ...
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 16 In this episode, “The Power of Belief: Awakening Your Psychic Gifts in a Time of Crisis,” I explore how belief shapes our psychic capacities—and why systems of control are so invested in suppressing them. From interspecies communication to remote viewing, from being in the G.A.T.E. program to experiencing spo…
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 15 What if shadowbanning isn’t just an algorithmic glitch—but a curse? A silencing spell cast on witches, weirdos, and worldbuilders? And what if breaking that curse means reclaiming your visibility, your voice, and your magic—one uncensored post at a time? In this bold and galvanizing solo episode of Your Art I…
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 14 Join Edgar Fabián Frías in conversation with Paris-based digital artist Anne Horel as they dive into AI art, AR filters, witchcraft, veganism, and the magic of making art in the post-internet age. From Vine to the Grand Palais, Anne shares her visionary practice and spells for the future. #AIart #DigitalWitch…
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 13 Is your art more than just art? 🎨✨ In this episode of Your Art Is A Spell, Edgar Fabián Frías unpacks the power of art spells—creative acts infused with intention, feeling, and transformation. Discover how your creativity can become a portal, a protest, and a sacred force of change. 🌱🔮 Learn what makes an art…
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I broke up with Amazon and Google when I left social media in 2021, and this year I decided it was also time to quit using Spotify. Why? Well because my values are not aligned with enriching billionaires like Jeff Bezos, letting Google track my behavior everywhere, or supporting Spotify in paying artists pennies. So in this episode, I share a bit m…
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 13 Is this the future of art? 👁️🌐✨ We explore 3 mind-bending digital art exhibitions in LA—featuring AR, AI, glitches, and queer futurities—with artist @lineadeluz of the @TheSelfieInstitute as our guide. 🖼️ Featured Exhibitions: Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at the Los Angeles Co…
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🔥 What if the stories we’ve been told about money and art are keeping us broke? In this episode of Your Art is a Spell, I’m breaking down 5 transformative money mindset shifts every artist needs to break free from financial struggle. So many artists are taught that making money means selling out… that art and business can’t mix… that struggling is …
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Edgar Fabián Frías is an artist, therapist, educator, curator, witch and so much more. Today, they join me on the podcast to talk about the decision they made to quiet quit Instagram at the start of 2025. Together, we explore: The works of art that changed our lives & nonlinear psychic collaboration Being impersonated on Instagram & how that can im…
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What if the way we resist capitalism is actually keeping us broke? In this episode, I dive deep into "punk damage" - that voice telling you making money equals selling out - and how it accidentally reinforces the very systems we're trying to dismantle. So many of you requested this topic in the comments, and I'm finally addressing the uncomfortable…
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This episode includes the song STRANGER IN PARADISE by Bocrew (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/BOCrew/36395 Ft: BOCREW / DEBBIZO / ALICE Larch photos by Thomas Chizzali. About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We…
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Have you ever felt like the system was deliberately keeping you broke? Like your creativity was being celebrated—but never compensated? What if the lack of financial education for artists isn’t an oversight… but a spell cast to keep us disempowered? In this no-holds-barred episode of Your Art is a Spell, we break the silence around the hidden force…
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This episode was written and produced by Risa Dickens, featuring the song Marram by Matt Carmichael About Missing Witches Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members o…
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 7 Join host Edgar Fabián Frías for an inspiring conversation with Eva Aguila, a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist and co-founder of Coaxial Arts Foundation. In this episode, Eva shares her journey from hiding her artistic passions from her immigrant parents to creating a groundbreaking nonprofit space fo…
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Your Art Is A Spell Season 1 Episode 4 Ever feel trapped in a job that drains your soul instead of feeding it? Dreaming of a career where your many passions can coexist instead of competing with each other? You're not alone. So many of us bounce between different interests, never quite finding that perfect role that embraces all of who we are. Meet…
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