About Peter M. Krask
Peter M. Krask is a writer, photographer and mentor based in New York City.
Krask has studied at the International Center of Photography, privately with Richard Tuschman and Carol Dragon, and in a master class with Hellen van Meene. Most recently, his work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, The Image Flow Gallery, and the Manifest Gallery. In New York, he has exhibited at the SoHo Photo Gallery, the Superfine Artfair, and Gallery Infinito. He serves on the board of Photolucida and is a pre-screener and juror for their Critical Mass program.
His non-fiction essay, The Question I Asked Him, opens the anthology The Man I Might Become and his memoir, The Way the Stars Come Home, was included in the anthology Wrestling with the Angel. He has written features and criticism for The Baltimore Sun, The City Paper, and The Boston Phoenix.
Krask is the librettist of the opera With Blood, With Ink, which received its acclaimed professional premiere at the Fort Worth Opera Festival, and has been twice featured on New York City Opera’s VOX festival, and produced by universities around the country; a recording is available on Albany Records. Other works include: The Language of Birds, commissioned and premiered by the Sarasota Opera and also featured by the Canadian Children’s Opera Company; Rendezvous of Light premiered in a production he also directed and designed; an adaptation of Calvino’s Invisible Cities; and From the Diary of Kaspar Hauser, The Child of Europe.
For over twenty years, he has also been the President and Creative Director of PMK Floral Arts, a boutique floral and event design company based in New York City. Clients include NBC’s Today Show, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and select corporate and private clients. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Town and Country, The Knot Book of Wedding Flowers, and Martha Stewart Weddings.
Krask is the Founder and Creative Director of The Creativity Guide which was launched in 2019. He is a Dedicated Mentor at the New Museum’s incubator of art, design and technology, New Inc. and is an Expert Coach for Columbia University’s CUGrow program. He is on the faculty of the Paris-based International School of Management and serves on the Board of Visitors for the School of Music at the University of Maryland. He has recently appeared in Bloomberg, Market Watch, Business Insider, and Yahoo Finance.
Peter M. Krask holds a Master’s Degree in Critical Studies from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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