Artist Interview With Kathryn Stotler
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Kathryn Stotler From Eureka, California
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Kathryn: I have been an artist for as long as I can remember. As a child I won art contests. I studied drawing and painting in high school. I wove textiles for fifteen years. I tried to watercolor. Now I do mixed media.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Kathryn: The first memorable attempt to be creative was when I was ten and made myself a cardboard loom. Then I wove wall hangings on it.
Do you make a living with your art?
Whopple: How many hours a day do you create?
Kathryn: I work approximately four to six hours in the studio nearly every day. I try to keep several pieces going at one time.
Whopple: How did you pick your creative medium?
Kathryn: The mixed media using all scrap format has been with me for a very long time. I had been thinking about this work for at least five years before making the leap into it. So a year ago, I jumped off a cliff so to speak, sold my weaving equipment, and began making the work I had been thinking about for so long.Choosing this medium was the culmination of many principles that I live by anyway: recycling, frugality, and aesthetics to name some.
Whopple: How do you recharge when your creativity hits the wall?
Kathryn: I have two sure-fire ways of getting past lack of inspiration: clean something and I make rain chains from s-hooks and scrap yard treasures.
Whopple: What was your first job?
Kathryn: My very first job out of college was teaching. Enough said
Whopple: What are your favorite snacks when you are creating?
Kathryn: I typically do not snack in the studio but I do drink an awful lot of tea.
Whopple: What gives you hope in the world?
Kathryn: What gives me hope is that there are so many kind and generous people in the world.
Whopple: What do you wish you could do?
Kathryn: I wish that I could afford to support all the kids in the world who would like to become artists but who haven’t the means.
Whopple: What are your artistic goals?
Kathryn: My artist goals are simple: to get my art out to as many people as I can. I want to move in the direction of corporate art and make very large pieces that can grace the public eye. I want to excite people to the idea that reusing what we already have in new and inventive ways can inspire us in ways that art has always inspired us.
Whopple: What has been your most exciting moment as an artist?
Kathryn: I would like to say something grandiose about my most exciting moment but I think it really was the first sale I made of my art.
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This is the kind of person who is going to be successful in the 21st century.
In his book, A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink stresses that folks who can synthesize various facts into new forms, with empathy for the consuming public will be able to flourish in the 21st century.
Pink points out that Wall Street now favors a Master of Fine Arts over a Master of Business because an MFA can observe a scene or client and empathize much more quickly in terms of what needs to be created to assist that person succeed.
So, looking at Stotler's work, I can readily see why, in the not too distant future, this artist is going to be doing very very well.
The key for Stotler is to stay in her creative space and to keep her heart and mind focused on the spirit of creativity. If she does that, there will be no stopping her rise.
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