What Is An Art Spell? (And How To Cast One)

Your Art Is A Spell
Season 1 Episode 14

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 spell, how to cast your own, and why your weird, wild, and wonderful expression is needed now more than ever. 💥👁️

👇 Drop a comment sharing your art spell + subscribe for more visionary magic.

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Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to Your Art Is A Spell
Kick off with an invitation to transform your life through art magic and intention.

00:26 – Meet Your Host: Edgar Fabián Frías
Introduction to the artist, therapist, and art witch behind the podcast.

00:51 – What Is an Art Spell?
Define the concept of art spells and how they work across time, space, and energy.

01:13 – How Art Becomes Magic
Discuss how intention, care, and unexpected transformations turn art into spells.

01:34 – My First Art Spell Experience at LACMA
Childhood story of confusion and awe that unlocked the magic of art.

01:58 – The Power of Not Knowing
Why uncertainty and deep feeling are key portals to creative transformation.

02:13 – Defining an Art Spell
A working definition of art spells as intentional acts that shift consciousness and reality.

02:40 – Intentionality Is Everything
Explore how spiritual, emotional, or social purpose fuels an art spell.

03:04 – You Don’t Need Crystals to Cast a Spell
What truly matters is belief in your creative power—not ritual tools.

03:25 – Art Spells as Collaboration with Spirit
Connection to ancestors, guides, the land, and unseen energies.

03:48 – Support This Spell! (Call to Action)
Encouragement to like, subscribe, and join the community of art witches.

04:12 – Flower Spell for Queer + ENM Communities
Story of a collaborative art ritual that led to unexpected visibility.

04:58 – My Art Was Sent to the Moon
A surreal outcome of an art spell—artwork launched into space.

05:41 – Instagram Spells + CN: This Post Is a Spell
A series of healing digital spells shared on social media.

06:08 – Art as Collective Spellwork
How creative works ripple through and connect communities beyond the individual.

06:32 – Art Spells as Resistance + Revolution
Reclaiming creativity as a birthright in a capitalist world.

06:55 – Fuck the Binary, Fuck the Market
Radical declarations: every voice and weirdness is sacred.

07:19 – How to Cast Your Own Art Spell
A simple prompt to help you channel your current feelings into creation.

08:01 – Scheduling Time = Casting a Spell
Claiming time for creativity is a powerful act of resistance.

08:27 – The Spell I’m Casting for the Future
Vision of a queerer, more connected, earth-centered world.

08:51 – Your Art Can Shape Timelines
Let your art echo beyond time, place, and imagination.

09:15 – Spells Tune Us Into Inner Power
How creativity connects to eroticism, rage, grief, and agency.

09:38 – Your Art Is a Portal to Power
Reclaim your agency in the face of systemic oppression.

10:21 – We Are the Art Witches Transforming the World
Collective healing, death doula-ing the old systems, birthing the new.

10:43 – Share This With a Fellow Art Witch
Invite your sensitive, creative friends to step into their power.

11:05 – Subscribe + Connect at YourArtIsASpell.com
Final call to subscribe, sign up, and send a voice note.

11:24 – Take Care + Remember: Your Art Is A Spell
A closing blessing to affirm your magic and collective power.

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What is Your Art Is A Spell?

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 your life and the world around you. Subscribe to the podcast and sign up for our newsletter at www.yourartisaspell.com to stay connected!

welcome your art is a spell and it will 
change your life and the world around

you have you ever made something that felt like it 
was more than just art like it was alive buzzing  

with energy intention maybe even magic hi everyone 
welcome or welcome back to Your Art Is A Spell  

i'm your host Edgar Fabián Frías and today we're 
diving deep into the very question at the heart  

of this podcast what exactly is an art spell if 
you're here chances are you already feel it that  

art is more than just decoration or content 
that it can shift energy open portals speak  

across time and space and ultimately change the 
world around us maybe you felt that spark before  

when you've made something and something made you 
back in this episode I'm going to unpack what art  

spells are how they work and how you can start 
to recognize and cast them in your own practice  

we'll talk about the care intention and power that 
fuels them and yes I'll even share a few stories  

where art spells came true in the most unexpected 
ways you may or may not remember from episode  

1 of this podcast season but one of the first 
encounters with an art spell happened when I was  

young visiting LACMA i didn't have the language 
for it at that time but that sense of confusion  

and transformation that was magic confusion and 
curiosity have always been powerful portals for  

me they invite in transformation they unsettle 
things to allow space for other possibilities  

i think that that's where art spells begin in that 
moment of not knowing but feeling deeply so here's  

my working definition of an art spell an art spell 
is a creative act infused with intention feeling  

and care crafted to shift energy consciousness or 
reality itself unlike traditional definitions of  

art that emphasize beauty or technical skills an 
art spell prioritizes impact it is a declaration  

this is sacred this is meant to do something so 
what makes something an art spell and not just  

art it's all about intentionality when you make 
an artwork with a specific emotional spiritual or  

social intention when you're consciously working 
to channel energy story or healing into form  

you're making an art spell you don't need to 
believe in magic in the traditional sense you  

don't need crystals or candles or even an altar 
what you do need is a belief in your art and in  

yourself that is the most essential ingredient 
of an art spell because at the heart of every  

art spell is trust trust that your creative power 
matters that your visions are valid that you're  

in conversation with energies that go beyond the 
material realm with guides and ancestors future  

selves even with the land itself spells are not 
just made they are felt they are collaborations  

with unseen forces before we go any deeper if 
this is resonating with you so far take a moment  

to give this episode some love by channeling some 
of your intention through a like by subscribing to  

this podcast or to my YouTube channel and drop 
a comment let me know what kind of art spells  

you've been casting and let's build a space here 
where art witches can find each other support each  

other and help amplify each other's magic the more 
we show up for one another the more power we bring  

to what we're creating together let me share 
a story a few years ago my friend Eva Aguila  

invited me to do a residency at the Coaxial Arts 
Foundation in downtown Los Angeles i collaborated  

with an amazing artist and witch named Gabriela 
Herstik on a flower spell for our queer trans kink  

poly and ENM communities we created it as a sacred 
offering not knowing where the spell was going to  

land and just a few weeks later without planning 
it I ended up getting invited to share an artwork  

on top of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco 
during Pride and that's the thing about spells you  

never really know where they're going to go and I 
have to tell you that one of the most surreal and  

powerful things that's happened with my spells 
was that four of them were taken up to the moon  

yes the literal actual moon i go into the full 
story of how my art ended up on the moon in  

episode one of this podcast and here's another 
spell story of mine i used to share spells on  

Instagram little pieces of writing born from 
pain rage transformation and every single post  

began with the line CN or content note this post 
is a spell this became one of my longest running  

series on my profile people would comment or DM 
me saying "I needed your spell today i feel seen  

i feel shifted." These spells were not viral just 
for the sake of it these were echoes confirmations  

proof that we are interconnected beyond the 
physical art becomes a spell that stirs the soul  

not just of the individual but of the collective 
it moves us it wakes something up in us in a world  

obsessed with capitalism productivity and 
control art spells are revolutionary they  

remind us that power is not something you buy 
or something you earn it's something that you  

remember that creativity is not a luxury it is a 
birthright that your intuition your sensitivity  

your weirdness your rage your grief your joy all 
of them are holy they're sacred art spells let  

us embody and imagine futures that don't exist 
yet they connect us to ancestral memories they  

whisper to us "You are not alone you are needed 
your magic matters they say "Fuck the binary  

[ __ ] the market [ __ ] the lie that says art 
is only for the gifted or for the elite your  

expression is sacred and your voice is a part of 
that sacred spell." Okay so after talking about  

spells so much now is your turn to learn how to 
cast a spell ready to cast your own art spell  

here's a simple prompt think of a feeling that's 
visiting you right now it could be confusion rage  

longing grief hope now give yourself 10 minutes to 
make something in conversation with that feeling  

don't worry about perfection just be honest let 
the art feel the feeling with you if you can't  

do that right now for whatever reason I want to 
invite you to open up your calendar and schedule  

an hour to do this later in the week that's a 
spell too because every time you claim time for  

your creativity you're reclaiming a piece of your 
power and don't forget spells take time some echo  

years later some spark immediate change some need 
to germinate in the darkness and that's all a part  

of the magic so what's the spell that I'm casting 
i'm imagining a world that is queerer browner more  

connected to the earth and to each other a world 
where art is a portal and not a product where we  

feed the soul before we feed the algorithm what 
spell are you casting with your art and what if  

it came true tomorrow let your art be a living 
prayer let it echo in places you've never been  

in timelines you've never touched and remember 
even your quietest creations might be shaping  

the world in ways you can't yet imagine and this 
is something that I feel is really important to  

talk about with art spells is they help us tune 
into our inner fire our inner creativity our inner  

eroticism our inner rage they help us feel 
potentiality in moments that might feel  

hopeless or helpless this is one of the reasons 
why I started this podcast is that we are living  

in a time when many people especially those 
of us that are not cis straight white men are  

feeling disempowered or are being told that 
we are not powerful that we have limitations  

on us and I want to remind you that your art is a 
portal to invite you into a process where you get  

to reclaim your sense of agency your sense of 
power your sense of impact and for you to know  

that you are not stuck within this decaying 
corrosive system you're a part of a massive  

change that is underway on this planet that is 
one of the reasons I feel so much hope in this  

world today is I know that I am a part of a web 
of witches that are transforming this planet we  

are the doulas that are here to witness the death 
of this decaying patriarchal capitalist system and  

we are the doulas that are here to welcome in 
a remembering of the magic that exists on this  

planet now I want to invite you if you have a 
friend that could use these words of affirmation  

this way of rethinking your art practice I want 
to invite you to share this episode with them  

cuz we need more of us highly sensitive creative 
weirdos to step into our power we are needed more  

than ever if you've also found this episode 
useful I want to invite you to subscribe to  

this podcast to sign up for my newsletter you 
can find that by going to yourartisaspell.com  

if you want to send me a voice note you can 
send me one by going to speakpipe.com/youart  

is a spell in the meantime I want to invite 
you to take care of yourself and each other  

and to not forget that your art is a spell and it 
will change your life and the world around us bye