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Now Available! Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists

April 18, 2018
Katherine Oktober Matthews
Creations, Events & Announcements, Support for Developing 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)

David LaChapelle: An Optimistic Apocalypse

"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)

Photo Workshop in the French Countryside

Announcing my creative photography workshop in Missé, France this October. Photography, French food and wine in the countryside!

Audrey Tautou: The (Un)importance of a Famous Face

"I will always have problems because I’m a self-made photographer. When you are an autodidact, you learn only from your mistakes. So, I learn a lot."
—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)

GUP#56 – Transition

GUP#56 - The Transition Issue (February 2018). Cover by David LaChapelle.

The Overview Effect

"Rather like the fish who doesn’t realise he’s swimming in water, our relationship with our own terrain is easy to not perceive due to its ubiquity."
(GUP Magazine, 2017)