Inside the Creative Process; Conversations with Artists, Writers, Performers, & Creatives

In this episode, I talk about the artist's difficulties entering unknown territory. As much as I love the mess in the middle of a process, I find myself blocked at the beginning of a process. I share about my own personal (current) experience of starting something new and the fears that come with it. If you enjoy this episode, check out this episode about the messy middle: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-conversations-with/id1600742208?i=1000701239978 If you'd like to work with Alicia privately in her 1:1 breathwork practice, check out her calendar here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25643833&appointmentType=category:Breathwork Follow Alicia on Instagram at @aliciapetersonbaskel

Michelle and Alicia discuss the way dance and creative practice reflects the beauty of life when we as artists and healers make ourselves available to something "bigger" than us. Michelle brings in her knowledge of human design (and a multitude of other embodied modalities) to articulate the importance of each us learning to listen to our own alignment. You can find more information about Michelle by heading to her website: https://www.michelleboule.com/home/ Or following her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelle.boule/ If you enjoyed this episode, you will definitely enjoy this past episode with Michelle: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-conversations-with/id1600742208?i=1000600879652 And if you enjoy journeying into the spiritual aspects of Creativity, please check out this episode with visual artist Kelly Heaton: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-conversations-with/id1600742208?i=1000610592229 ______ Follow Alicia Peterson Baskel on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/ There's still time to get $50 off your 1:1 Breathwork with Alicia by using the code "healthyholiday" through Dec. 31, 2025 https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25643833&appointmentType=category:Breathwork

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episode, Alicia shares one of her longest ongoing creative processes to date: 13 years of writing and editing a still unpublished picture book series.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 and the pleasure of being inside a process that relies heavily on trust and intuition during her agonizingly detailed editing process. If you are a writer, this episode is for you. If you enjoyed this episode, please check out these other conversations with writers about their creative process: Conversation with Author and Breathwork Guide Danielle Herring: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000556681578 Conversation with Children's Book Author Jonna Watson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000673610364 If you are an agent or a publisher you can reach Alicia at aliciapetersonbaskel@gmail.com

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 their process and how they imagine this work unfolding, as they hold onto the optimistic view that the work already exists somewhere in the future. Listen to the rest of the conversation with Omar Ramos: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000721190527 Sign up for the FREE Creative Rhythms workshop with Alicia on Monday, August 25th @ 9am pacific (recording will be available to anyone who can't make the workshop live): https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25643833&appointmentType=74530187

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 the responsibility of caring for a child. Alicia shares her journey and the shifts that she made to keep making art including shifting genres, creating new processes, and finding ways to be creatively efficient. If you enjoy this episode, please check out these interviews with artist mothers who speak about how they balance motherhood and their creative process in our conversation. Conversation with Visual Artist Carolyn Mara: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000549121922 Conversation with Playwright Jennifer Barclay: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000551417037 Conversation with Opera Director Cynthia Stokes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process-inspiration-from-artists/id1600742208?i=1000555095993 Please follow Alicia on Instagram at @Aliciapetersonbaskel

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, Best Worst Advice, and left satisfied and amazed that she was one of only a few to have witnessed THAT performance. "I highly recommend that if you are in San Diego on July 12 or July 19, you go see it for yourself." - Alicia Please consider donating to fund Best Worst Advice's journey to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Find the fundraising information here: http://spot.fund/zgzk3wnsc Find the Open Rehearsal/Performance information here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DL7hU8WuQ-h/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MXhxamt2ajc3OHk1aA== Again, it's July 12 (open rehearsal) 3-5pm at the City Heights Performance Annex and July 19 (performance) 3-4pm at the City Heights Performance Annex. For more from Alicia Peterson Baskel - follow on Instagram: @aliciapetersonbaskel

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 separating them into two parts of us, we can integrate the whole body at once and utilize all of us as we create our creations. This episode comes in response to studying the head center in Alicia's class Creative Rhythms. If you'd like to join the next three week segment of Creative Rhythms, we'd love to have you: Sign up for April: https://square.link/u/D1GqlHsI **Segment Two (April 7 - 25) Finding your Flow; How we align, commit, and emote in our creative process Wk. 1 - G Center: An Artist's Compass Wk. 2 - Heart Center: The Drive to Create Wk. 3 - Solar Plexus Center: The Emotional Pulse of Art

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 talks about how she creates space to allow more epiphanies to happen by allowing herself to be in the process of experimenting and playing as often as possible. But it's not always easy in the "real" world to make time for creative play. Producing a final product becomes our obsession as artists. But what if this thought is actually stunting our creativity? Alicia has created a course, Creative Rhythms; The Art of Pause, Play, & Epiphany that is meant to support you in forming a habit of play and authenticity. On February 24th at 9am pst / 12pm est, Alicia will host a free intro class. If you are interested, please sign up: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=25643833&appointmentType=74530187 If you enjoyed this episode, please check out Episode 31 about Play in the Creative Process: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000685308673 Or Episode 30 about stillness: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000684385459 Follow Alicia on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/

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 for over forty years across Europe and the United States. In this episode, Yolande speaks about a tragedy that created a rupture in the timeline of her journey, the death of her son Alexander. She speaks vulnerably about how she was catapulted into a new existence and how her creative expression helped save her life. Please learn more about Yolande Snaith by visiting her website: https://www.yolandesnaith.com/ Please follow Alicia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/ If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like to listen to this solo episode about grief as part of the process: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000614660816 Or this episode near the beginning of my podcasting journey about my father: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000549882922 Thank you for listening. - Alicia

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 that can come with the push of trying to MAKE something of importance. What if play is the most important thing? Alicia is creating a course for creatives and she'd love your input. Please respond to this 3-5 minute anonymous survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhmXGd5KpUW0_UHwjPttWcTO6gace7AsOK_LuV26hwaJFOdQ/viewform?usp=header If you enjoyed this episode, check out last week's episode about Stillness in the Creative Process: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000684385459 Or this episode about the value of confusion in your process: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000668466170

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 the mediums and techniques where they lead. Stephanie is the founder of Creative Nexus, an online interdisciplinary creative community. *Check out Creative Nexus here: https://www.stephanieswilleyart.com/creative-nexus *Check out Virtual Studio here: https://www.stephanieswilleyart.com/virtual-studio *Contribute to the IndieGoGo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/creative-nexus-feb-mar-2025-residency#/ *Creative Nexus Residency Interest Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVhu_8ibeSnl-whRAx33U7dS1dJr22yEzVxnMyKSsOdgkYSQ/viewform *Follow Stephanie / Creative Nexus on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativenexuscommunity?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== ________________ If you enjoyed this episode, please check out episode 23: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000670045197 And Episode 24: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208?i=1000671654225 Follow Alicia Peterson Baskel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/

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 in-director, noticing the tangents and pulling out fragments from an ocean of material. She writes about her decision to finally share this work, "It is long-delayed and too soon, emergent and well-established, known and what-is-it-ish? Prominent elements have faded, accidental happenstances have become central, and traces of our long process are in and out of focus." everotherwise by Leslie Seiters Friday, Oct.25th at 7:30; Two shows Saturday, Oct. 26th at 5:30 and 7:30The Prebys Stage (at SDSU, across from the ENS building) Purchase tickets here: https://psfa.sdsu.edu/calendar everotherwise interrupts an ongoing flow and assembles fragmented information into an “otherwise” weave. Dancing is tangential, coincidental, and nearly recognizable creating distance from patterns of meaning, knowing and expectation. To discover more of about the work of Leslie Seiters: https://leslie-seiters.com/ To purchase tickets for everotherwise: https://psfa.sdsu.edu/calendar Learn more about Creative Chrysalis with Alicia: https://mailchi.mp/c56f8e7440c5/creative-chrysalis Follow Alicia on IG: https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/