Debbi Cohilas

Artist & Visionary

Debbi Cohilas — Arcane Visions Studio

Some people find magic. Debbi was born already practicing it — she simply didn’t have a name for it yet.

After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, Debbi built an illustrious career in film and television spanning more than thirty years. Her credits include Avatar: The Last Airbender, Family Guy, King of the Hill, The Venture Bros., and Big Mouth. As a storyboard artist, director, and animation timer, she has spent three decades doing what very few people on earth can do at her level — translating the invisible into the visible, giving form to worlds that exist first in imagination and then, through her hand, in reality.

When the Western Mystery Tradition finally entered her life, it did not feel like a discovery. It felt like a homecoming.

Today Debbi is the primary artistic hand of Arcane Visions Studios — the maker whose skill transforms initiatory concept into physical, luminous reality.

Drew Cohilas

Artist & Creative Partner

Drew Cohilas — Artist & Creative Partner

I came to the Western Mystery Tradition the way a linguist comes to a lost language — with the unsettling recognition that I had been searching for something without knowing what I was looking for, and that it had been there all along.

I was initiated into Freemasonry in 2020, and what I expected to be a fraternal experience became something far more profound. The Hermetic current, Qabalah, the Golden Dawn system, the Rosicrucian and Martinist traditions: these were not new ideas so much as a new grammar for things I had always sensed were true. It felt less like learning and more like remembering.

Before Debbi and I were partners in marriage or in business, she gave me a gift — a pair of hand-painted esoteric shoes. On one, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life rendered as luminous, jewel-colored fruit. On the other, the Rose Cross, the Seal of Solomon, the complete symbolic vocabulary of the tradition I had given my inner life to. She had painted my entire inner world onto a pair of sneakers. Arcane Visions Studios was born in that gift, and in the love that followed it.

Today I serve as creative partner and co-fabricator — developing the symbolic programs and initiatory concepts that form the blueprint for each bespoke commission, and bringing my hands to the work alongside Debbi.