One of the most daunting aspects of pursing a creative or artistic career for many aspiring artists is not knowing how to learn the craft. So, we asked some very talented artists and creatives to talk to us about how they learned their crafts and we hope their stories will help you in your journey.

Kenyatta Rogers

I do believe in being a life-long learner, although I had to be on in order to appreciate that. While I learned to write as a child, my agency of words changed and developed as I got older. Read more>>

Caleb White

I have a background in video, so I had worked with audio a bit, but definitely preferred video editing to working with audio. When I decided to try making podcasts I approached audio editing the same why I did video: Read more>>

Edwin García Maldonado

I became acquainted with printmaking as a craft and as an artistic practice when I started college in Venezuela. There I had several subjects related to this field and began to explore techniques, processes, materials, the conceptualization and execution of a series of prints, among other things. Read more>>

Jessica Straus

I have always considered myself an artist. As a kid I used to paint along side my mother who was a very good artist. We also used to take on all sorts of crafts projects. Read more>>

Evan Jones

I’ve recently been focused on honing in on my craft. Learning about and being more deeply in touch with my materials and focusing on my technique and how it applies to my subject matter. Read more>>

Rebecca Lamar

Three years ago, I made a discovery that I had never truly put my craft away, but I had let it fall down the priority ladder. The reality was that my art, was the only thing that was helping to process through some trauma and emotional events. Read more>>

Dale Jones

How I started with Floral Design. In highschool I had a office part time position with my In Laws. One request was finding or getting quotes on replacing a window box arrangement from a local florist. Read more>>

James Kao

My journey into digital photography began with a whale–a humpback whale breaching beside my boat in the Galapagos. I did have a small point-and-shoot digital camera but it was inadequate to capture the fast action of the jumping whale and after my trip I decided it was time to invest in better equipment and properly learn about photography. Read more>>

Amanda Smith

I have had a longstanding passion for exploring alternative creation methods and cross-disciplinary collaborations for opera and other styles of live music performance. Read more>>

Jenna Murray

I was somewhat forced into becoming a photographer. Allow me to clarify: I was not forcibly constrained and compelled to take photos, but rather faced with the ultimatum of either pursuing this path or not having health insurance. Read more>>

Kenyatta Rogers

I do believe in being a life-long learner, although I had to be on in order to appreciate that. While I learned to write as a child, my agency of words changed and developed as I got older. Read more>>

Chelsea Blackwell

My lore starts with the very first painting I made as a Pre-Kindergartner with no formal instruction in art and barely a grasp on the totality of creativity as a whole. Read more>>

Katiedid

I started from a very simple place – just loving music and making lots and lots of playlists. In 2009, a friend of mine back home in Boston asked if I’d put together a playlist for an ecstatic dance she was holding while I was in town and I got a taste of how the music in those spaces can be such a powerful catalyst for emotional expression. Read more>>

Leepeck Leepeck

I have been playing guitar since I was a child. I bought my first guitar with my own money while picking apricots on a farm in California. It was a cheap classical guitar :) Read more>>

Allison Blevins

I was lucky to study with incredible professors during my MA at Pittsburg State University and my MFA at Queens University. Laura Lee Washburn, a professor at PSU, has been an important mentor throughout my career. Read more>>

El Tres Da Nova

The project that became the band Death Is A Business launched in New York in 2013. Since then, it has grown into a musical family spanning the East Coast and Midwest US, and abroad to Mexico, Peru and Brazil. Read more>>

Felipe Wallis

I owe a great deal of my success to the solid foundation that my uncles provided me with from a young age. They are an incredible duo who have been running their own fashion label and atelier in Barcelona for over 20 years. Read more>>

Tony De Luz

From a very early age, around 4, it was determined that I had a bit of artistic ability. I was able to draw things and make them look like what they were supposed to be. Read more>>

Madison Stidham

I never earned a degree in art. I was a genetics major in college and somewhere along the line I picked up an art minor because I couldn’t fight the “itch” to create. Read more>>

Ekaterina Titova

Since the moment the dream of becoming an artist was born in my childhood heart, I embarked on a journey of exploring and developing my talent. Read more>>

Ben Francisco

During my first few years of writing fiction, I spent a lot of time groping around in the dark, finding my way. I wrote some pretty paragraphs and some nice scenes, but I hadn’t written a real story with a beginning and end, where a character faces a challenge and learns something from it. Read more>>

Anastasia Filonenko

When I was in school, I didn’t know who I wanted to be, not even close. But in one beautiful moment, when I first saw MTV EMA and there were backstage shots, I realized – I want to be not under the stage, but with those cool people backstage. Read more>>

Jasmine Gill

Deciding to become a comedian was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. Comedy has changed my life in ways that I can’t even express. Read more>>

Roscelle Griffin

I am pretty much a self taught photographer. I learned a lot of what I know now from watching YouTube videos, reading articles and leaning on my peers. Read more>>

Jo Ferreira

I did not want to say I’m a small-town girl who often gazed through the window, dreaming about going into another world through my imagination, but clichés are based on truth right? Read more>>

Nacho Larraza

When it comes to crafting songs, I embarked on a journey of trial and error. Like many musicians, I began by writing songs with just guitar and vocals. Read more>>

Alison Cordero

My father is a carpenter – I guess that’s where I get it from because if 5-6 years ago you would have told me I’d be a woodworker I might have laughed in disbelief. Read more>>

Max Meeder

When I was in my first semester of college, I remember being really bummed out because I had a hard time finding bands to play with. Read more>>

Noel Medina

Over the past three decades I have had the great pleasure to work with people of all sorts. That is key in being a successful photographer. Read more>>

Ben Bertolini

When I was in College it was mandatory that for the film majors that we have to take a photography class. I was so bad and sat in back of class and never wanted to share my work because it was so bad. Read more>>