Inside the Creative Process; Conversations with Artists, Writers, Performers, & Creatives
The creative process of art-making is both messy and magical, frustrating and fluid. It can bring an artist‘s insecurities up to the surface, yet asks for complete and total trust. Join professional dance artist, writer, and fiber artist, Alicia Peterson Baskel, as she interviews a new and different artist each week. You will hear from artists and writers across genres about their journey through the creative process toward their masterpieces. These conversations will encourage YOU to make your art. To value your art and to value the work of others. To push boundaries and to be willing to step into the unknown and trust yourself. To trust your creative intuition. (Photo Credit: Kate Wall)
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 96 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Creative Refinement or My Journey as a Picture Book Writer
In this solo episode, Alicia shares one of her longest ongoing creative processes to date: 13 years of writing and editing a still unpublished picture book series. She takes you through the pivots an…
Reminder to All Creatives: Artist is an Identity
In this solo episode, Alicia grapples with her own personal difficulty witnessing creatives deny their creativity and she ponders ways that we can reimagine a creative process that can exist in our c…
Allowing your Creative Vision to Emerge w/ Omar Ramos
In this episode, Alicia continues her conversation with collaborator Omar Ramos as the two stage artists reveal the emerging process for their next performance piece. Listen in on where they are in t…
Creative Collaboration with Lighting/Video/Sound Designer Omar Ramos
In this Episode, Alicia talks with friend and collaborator, Omar Ramos, a multi-hyphenate designer with a passion for integrating emerging technologies into stage performances. Omar speaks about his …
The Artist / Mother Dilemma; My Personal Journey
In this first episode of season 4, Alicia speaks frankly about the difficulties in motherhood of maintaining the creative process and seeing ourselves as artists when we are so enamored/distracted by…
Bonus: When Artwork Keeps Working; A Response to EVEROTHERWISE by Leslie Seiters
In this episode, Alicia shares her experience in witnessing and processing the dance piece EVEROTHERWISE by Leslie Seiters. Alicia shares how deeply she is moved by the humanity of this piece as she …
Bonus: When a Work-in-Process Showing Becomes THE Performance
In this episode, Alicia speaks about her delightful experience attending an intimate sharing of a work in process trio performance. She was invited to witness a WIP showing of the dance theatre piece…
Staying Devoted to Your Creative Vision While You're in the Messy Middle
In this episode, Alicia talks about that place in the middle or the process where things NEED to be allowed to be messy. She goes from her kid's school Art Show to her own experience making her thesi…
A Reminder to All Creatives: BE in your Body
In this solo episode, Alicia speaks about the importance of being in the body when we create. So often, our society prizes the gifts of the mind but forgets the wisdom of the body. When we stop separ…
Studying WICKED's Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera through the lens of Human Design
In this solo episode, Alicia examines the human design charts of the actors from the movie WICKED, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera. Alicia has been obsessed with the movie since before it came…
How to Invite Epiphany into your Creative Process
In this episode, Alicia talks about her favorite part of the creative process, the epiphanies that surprise and delight all of us and give clarity about the direction our work is going. Alicia also t…
Creating Safe Spaces for our Trans and Queer Community
In this episode, I speak with Alyssa Rose and Jesse Greenfield about some simple and loving ways to be inclusive of transgender and queer people in our community. They share what it feels like to be …
The Healing Power of Creative Expression w/ Dance Theatre Artist: Yolande Snaith
Yolande Snaith is an interdisciplinary artist and dance practitioner, navigating the merge between diverse creative practices. She has worked collaboratively in the worlds of dance, theatre and film …
Creativity vs. Artistic Process; How do we describe what we do?
In this episode, Alicia considers the language we choose to describe what we do. Creativity, creative process, and artistic process seem to be used interchangeably, but is this really true? In attemp…
The Value of PLAY in the Creative Process
In this solo episode, Alicia makes a case for Play as some of the most important work we do as artists. By play, she's talking about experimentation, exploration, and a letting go of preciousness tha…
Stillness & Your Creative Process
In this solo episode, Alicia explores the importance of adding intentional stillness to your creative toolbox. Not the kind of stillness that involves Netflix or Instagram, but the value of creating …
Reframing your "Fails" w/ Artist and Writer Stephanie Swilley
Stephanie Swilley is a community-taught conceptual artist living in Northern Iowa, USA. Stephanie imposes no creative limitations on her creative expression, her loyalty is to an idea and she follows…
[Solo] The Creative Process is a Political Act
In this short solo episode, Alicia reveals her sadness about NOT seeing Kamala Harris elected our next president. She has a post-election reminder: Your commitment to your creative process IS a polit…
The Creative Process behind EVEROTHERWISE by Dance Artist Leslie Seiters
In my conversation with Leslie Seiters, we talk about the process of making the piece, 'everotherwise'. A consistent process that started more than three years ago, Seiters describes her self as an i…
Reignite your Creative Spark with Children's Book Author and Illustrator Jonna Watson
Jonna Watson loved to write as a child, but personal experiences caused her to push her creative spark so far away that she couldn't summon it back. After living out of alignment with herself for 30 …