The Analog
Art Lab
In a world driven by generative AI and digital data, where do we find the uniquely human spark?
Welcome to StorytellingStamping™ — an immersive, analog maker experience designed to re-engage your tactile creativity, intuition, and personal narrative. Stepping entirely away from screens, you engage with a curated collection of over 70 hand-carved stamps. Without overthinking, you select the symbols that call to you and press ink to paper to design a personalized narrative card.
- Pick up a small blank postcard and move through guided creative stops
- Choose a handmade stamp that speaks to you and build your own visual story
- Scan a QR code at the end for a personalized reading about your piece
Once your collage is complete, you participate in a brief, powerful interpretation session with Kathy and Cyndi. Combining Kathy’s deep creative insight with Cyndi’s background in human experience and futures-thinking, they help you unlock subconscious insights and recognize hidden patterns.
leave with a personalized visual story no algorithm could replicate.
Open throughout CREATE 2026
The Analog Art Lab runs throughout CREATE Conference 2026, October 16–18 in Salt Lake City — a screen-free counterpoint to the AI programming around it, curated by artist Kathy Cano-Murillo (The Crafty Chica) and applied futurist Cyndi Coon.
About The Analog Art Lab
Kathy Cano-Murillo, known as The Crafty Chica, is a Phoenix artist and author whose lifelong mission is to promote positivity through creativity. A third-generation Mexican-American maker, she built CraftyChica® into the first Latina-designed, Latino-centric product line at Michaels, and has authored a dozen books including the bestseller Forever Frida.
Cyndi Coon is an Applied Futurist and founder of Applied Futures Lab. She keeps humans at the center of futures work for national security and enterprise teams, and brings that same human-centered lens to helping you read your own story in The Analog Art Lab.
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