We had the good fortune of connecting with George Krause and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi George, do you disagree with some advice that is more or less universally accepted?
The concept that anyone can be a great artist if you desire it enough. Being an artist and making art is not easy.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
The following is from a recent interveiw in Glasstire

George Krause is an American photographer and multidisciplinary artist living and working in Wimberley, Texas. Krause received the first Prix de Rome and the first Fulbright-Hays grant ever awarded to a photographer, two Guggenheim fellowships, and three grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. His work is exhibited and held in museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Krause established the photography department at the University of Houston in 1975, where he taught until his retirement in 1999.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I live in Wimberley, Texas and it is a small but lovely place where lots of artists and musicians live and work. Paul Simon moved here a year ago. The most famous tourist spots are Jacob’s Well and Blue Hole. There are many places to eat with my favorites being Leaning Pear and Jobels.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I have been most fortunate in having many who were crucial in my development as a person and an artist. The one individual always at the front of that line is my print teacher who I first met as a student in art school, Jerry Kaplan. I left home at sixteen and held many jobs from busboy to doing the ad layouts for the yellow pages. Jerry got me a gig teaching drawing at Swarthmore College one night a week and as an assistant in his lithography class at the Fleisher Art Memorial another evening.

Website: www.georgekrause.com

Instagram: krause1371

Facebook: gkrause37@gmail.com

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