Karel Garcia: Building a Life of Art, Love, and Freedom. A conversation about identity, love, and creating without apology.

At We Art St. Pete, we know that art is never just about what’s on the canvas—it’s about the life behind it. In our first artist interview, we sit down with Karel Garcia, a Cuban-born artist, architect, and storyteller whose journey is as powerful as his work.

Karel shares what it means to grow up in Vedado, Cuba, to feel the pull of creativity and constraint at once—and what it meant to leave it all behind to live freely, love openly, and build a life with his partner.

This conversation moves through queerness, migration, softness, and survival—and how art becomes a way to reclaim space, rewrite identity, and speak truth in a world that too often asks us to shrink.