Inside the Creative Process; Conversations with Artists, Writers, Performers, & Creatives
Episodes
Fighting for Arts Funding in San Diego
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia rants about the 11.8 million dollars that are meant to be cut from the City of San Diego's budget leaving funding for the arts...
Into the Unknown; an Integral Part of the Creative Process
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 myse...
The Value of Witnessing Improvised Dance
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are at least two outcomes that occur as a result of Improvised Dancing: vulnerability of the artist and organic composition. For me, these are t...
Permission to All Creatives: You're allowed to be Raw and Unedited
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia not only encourages artists to create work that is unedited but she actually embodies this practice by publishing an unedited ...
Creative Practice as Spiritual Devotion w/ Michelle Boulé
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Do Artists Need to be Consistent to be Creative?
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We hear the word Consistent often as a goal to aspire to. As a trait that makes us worthy and often the only solution to be productive or gain the att...
Creative Refinement or My Journey as a Picture Book Writer
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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episode, Alicia shares one of her longest ongoing creative processes to date: 13 years of writing and editing a still unpublished picture...
Reminder to All Creatives: Artist is an Identity
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode, Alicia grapples with her own personal difficulty witnessing creatives deny their creativity and she ponders ways that we can rei...
Allowing your Creative Vision to Emerge w/ Omar Ramos
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia continues her conversation with collaborator Omar Ramos as the two stage artists reveal the emerging process for their next pe...
Creative Collaboration with Lighting/Video/Sound Designer Omar Ramos
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode, Alicia talks with friend and collaborator, Omar Ramos, a multi-hyphenate designer with a passion for integrating emerging technologie...
The Artist / Mother Dilemma; My Personal Journey
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of season 4, Alicia speaks frankly about the difficulties in motherhood of maintaining the creative process and seeing ourselves...
Bonus: When Artwork Keeps Working; A Response to EVEROTHERWISE by Leslie Seiters
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia shares her experience in witnessing and processing the dance piece EVEROTHERWISE by Leslie Seiters. Alicia shares how deeply s...
Bonus: When a Work-in-Process Showing Becomes THE Performance
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia speaks about her delightful experience attending an intimate sharing of a work in process trio performance. She was invited to...
Staying Devoted to Your Creative Vision While You're in the Messy Middle
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 schoo...
A Reminder to All Creatives: BE in your Body
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Studying WICKED's Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera through the lens of Human Design
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How to Invite Epiphany into your Creative Process
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 abo...
Creating Safe Spaces for our Trans and Queer Community
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
The Healing Power of Creative Expression w/ Dance Theatre Artist: Yolande Snaith
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yolande Snaith is an interdisciplinary artist and dance practitioner, navigating the merge between diverse creative practices. She has worked collabor...
Creativity vs. Artistic Process; How do we describe what we do?
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia considers the language we choose to describe what we do. Creativity, creative process, and artistic process seem to be used in...
The Value of PLAY in the Creative Process
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Stillness & Your Creative Process
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode, Alicia explores the importance of adding intentional stillness to your creative toolbox. Not the kind of stillness that involves...
Reframing your "Fails" w/ Artist and Writer Stephanie Swilley
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Swilley is a community-taught conceptual artist living in Northern Iowa, USA. Stephanie imposes no creative limitations on her creative expr...
[Solo] The Creative Process is a Political Act
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this short solo episode, Alicia reveals her sadness about NOT seeing Kamala Harris elected our next president. She has a post-election reminder: Yo...
The Creative Process behind EVEROTHERWISE by Dance Artist Leslie Seiters
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In my conversation with Leslie Seiters, we talk about the process of making the piece, 'everotherwise'. A consistent process that started more than th...
Reignite your Creative Spark with Children's Book Author and Illustrator Jonna Watson
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. A...
The Creative Process behind PLEASUREHOOD by Dance Artist Eric Geiger
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You may also enjoy my Interview with Eric Geiger from 2022 (Episode 3): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-creative-process/id1600742208...
Overcoming Doubt in the Creative Process; A Post-Performance Talk
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I performed a dance piece that I had been researching for three years, but even so my self doubt became a problem for me to overcome. Was I...
"Make a Dance w/ Me" with Dance Artist and Writer Alicia Peterson Baskel
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You are Invited: On September 26th, 2024 @ 10am PDT, I will be performing an improvised solo dance piece at the Feldenkrais Institute of San Diego. I ...
The Essence of Creativity w/ Human Design Shadow Expert Danna Yahav
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Creativity is being who you are no matter who that is" - Danna Yahav. Danna's insatiable curiosity has taken her down every spiritual, healing, and s...
The Value of Confusion in the Creative Process
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you feel about confusion in your artistic process? In this solo episode, Alicia argues that confusion is not something that we have to fix but ...
Transforming Grief into Creative Expression
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded this episode on Tuesday, August 27th - the 6th anniversary of my mother's passing. In this solo episode, I speak about how I'm no longer tr...
Creativity turns the Mundane into Magic w/ Indie Artist Kelli Perrault
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kelli Perrault, known professionally as The Pleasant Creative, works in a variety of mediums from digital illustration to screenprinting, linocut prin...
The Shared Language of Creative Process w/ Animator, Filmmaker, and Media Designer Tara Knight
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Knight is an animator, filmmaker, media designer for live performance, and associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder who works i...
Short Story Solo: Watching it All Come Together
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is for the multi-passionates out there. In this episode, Alicia looks at how her process in dance making looks alot like the process she ...
How Breathwork Meditation Feeds my Creative Process
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the episode where you find out about everything Alicia has been up to including taking a deep dive down the Human Design rabbit hole and how B...
Everyday Artistry w/ Movement and Theatre Artist Tsuyuno Amos
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tsuyuno Amos is a Hawai‘i-based performer whose background is in acting, dance, and theatre. She studied dance at Bennington College before moving h...
Short Story Solo: Grief Is Part of the Process (part 1)
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this raw solo episode, I share my experience of losing my mom almost 5 years ago and a small portion of my journey with grief. My hope in sharing t...
Art and Aliveness w/ Intuitive Artist and Electrical Engineer Kelly Heaton
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Heaton is a cross-disciplinary artist, engineer, and visionary who works with electricity. She is fascinated by what makes things alive and cons...
Trusting your Inner Compass with Dance Artist & Transformational Coach Michelle Boulé
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"When our artwork can hold our heartwork, that is the place of most transformation for our audiences and primarily for ourselves." Michelle Boulé is ...
Short Story Solo: The Improvised Episode
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this last episode of Season 1, Alicia meanders through a story about an impactful teacher she barely remembers, the reflective surfaces of her chil...
Artistic Multiplicity with Hybrid Artists Bridget Rountree and Iain Gunn
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Also known as Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Bridget Rountree and Iain Gunn work at the intersection of fine art, puppetry, performance art, physical the...
Finding Creative Clarity through Breathwork with Author Danielle Hering
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Hering is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Breathwork Healer, and a reluctant creative. In this episode she talks about how her brea...
Busting Out of the Trappings of Tradition with Opera Director Cynthia Stokes
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cynthia Stokes is an American stage and opera director committed to reimagining opera for the 21st century. She challenges the relationship between pe...
Short Story Solo: That Time Tere O’Connor’s Choreography Blew My Mind
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode, Alicia shares her experience at the Bates Dance Festival seeing Tere O'Connor's choreography for the first time and the profound...
Violinist Kristopher Apple on How Community and Collaboration Can Feed Creativity
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Violinist, composer, performer, and educator Kristopher Apple works at the intersection of music, dance, text, and digital media. In our conversation...
Short Story Solo: Artistic Nourishment in Berlin
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode, Alicia Peterson Baskel recalls a performance that nourished her during a time when she felt depleted artistically. The William F...
Playwright Jennifer Barclay on Taking Charge of Your Own Artistic Path
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Playwright Jennifer Barclay shares her story about shifting from an actor with laser focus on her craft to becoming a playwright who creates stereotyp...
Dance Artist Eric Geiger on Honoring our Artistic Lineage
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dance artist Eric Geiger shares his incredible journey from studying on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center to working with Bill T. J...
Short Story Solo: Engineering Improvisation
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Host Alicia Peterson Baskel honors the memory of her late father, Garvin Peterson, as she tells the story of how an engineer resonates deeply with his...
Visual and Performance Artist Carolyn Mara on How to Own Calling Yourself an Artist
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visual and performance artist Carolyn Mara is an unapologetic award-winning multimedia artist whose creative methodology uses videographical performan...
Introducing Inside the Creative Process
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new weekly podcast about the creative process of art-making. Subscribe now! New episodes coming soon.