Creativity as a Career Available for Print-on-Demand
Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists, a book I edited, is now available for print-on-demand at the American Book Center in Amsterdam.
Now Available! Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists
Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists is now available. I'm so proud to have edited this important project, which is designed to help support art students and artists-to-be in developing their skills as creative entrepreneurs.
Brilliant Failures and Second Chances
"To become better equipped for a world of risk and uncertainty is not to neutralize or learn to enjoy failure, but to learn how to cope with it afterward."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Riding the Dragon, 2018)
Insight on the Role of a Photography Editor
“A well-edited work, much like a well-designed product, doesn’t just look natural – it feels inevitable.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)
The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma
“Let’s be clear about this: working for yourself doesn’t eradicate the problem of worker exploitation. You’ve just replaced an external boss with an internal one. You’re a horse, cracking its own whip.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Medium, 2016)
On Ruin and Loss
"Ruin and loss are inevitable, and it’s not the worst thing that can happen."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (GUP Magazine)