Katherine Alexis Clausen has been creating art and inspired by art for longer than she can remember. As a young girl she began working with photography at the age of 8. Growing up in the Maryland suburbs of DC she was given access to a rich creative foundation, studying mainstream art history, taking art classes and studying dance. She became serious about making pictures as soon as she could take a darkroom class at the age of fifteen. It quickly became her main creative passion, taking the course over and over again and often getting teachers to excuse her from class or even skipping other classes to try to get into the darkroom twice a day. In college Katherine did work study running the College of Santa Fe, Marion Center darkroom cage, worked in the slide library and studied photography, as well as art history and women’s studies. She was also a photo editor for the school newspaper and worked as a studio assistant for her photography professor. Clausen graduated from Oregon State University with a liberal arts degree that she tailored to her ambitions to help artists and to work in the art world; focusing on communication studies, art and art history. She enriched her understanding of the art world and its sociological framework by studying at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in NYC. This degree focus was specifically intended to allow her to be able to help creative people in the advancement of their careers. 

Throughout her career Katherine has worked as a photographer, photo editor, executive assistant to the director of a nonprofit arts organization focusing on photographic arts. Following that she was the co-founder of the instagram platform: Invest in Her Art, where she ran the daily content creation, and was the principal researcher and writer of the daily posts, profiling over 400 women and non-binary artists, helping to grow the account to over 5,000 followers in less than a year. Additionally while working as the principal curator for the platform she flexed her curatorial skills daily and put together a two week show in 2020, ‘Inspire the Vote’ which featured artists making work about issues relevant to the upcoming election. 

In early 2019 Clausen began a mentorship that would change her view of her own life and the world and lead her to her purpose, guiding people to take up more space in their lives. Through the observation and study of societal frameworks, human design, spirituality and the understanding of triggers and reactivity Katherine has developed a deep understanding and compassion for what people experience and a passion for guiding people so they may achieve their wildest aspirations and dreams by finding and fulfilling their purpose and living their lives joyfully. 

Learning that you don’t have to stay in one lane and there is room for everyone to pursue and live out their dreams has been incredibly beneficial for Katherine to be able to move into this life stage where she is able to utilize her gifts to help people take up space in their own lives. She does this through guidance, mentorship and modeling it by living that way herself. Clausen has always had the drive to help guide people to embodying their full potential. She does this by utilizing her unique ability and talent of a top down perspective that allows her to see and identify patterns and causes that can be worked through and harnessed to serve her clients. The freedom of working for herself allows her to explore all that lights her up. Space Making Mentorship and guidance of her clients is her purpose and she models taking up space by continuing to create art, consulting as an art advisor as well as her many passion projects including The Salon Letter, It Could Be Anything; which is full of content that is meant to inspire change and expand its readers’ horizons to look at life differently and limitlessly. 

Katherine has lived all over the United States as well as a brief time in Paris and currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.