THE RISK EXPERIMENTATION IN THE CREATIVE CAREER: THE CASE OF MASTERS OF THE CEARENSE CULTURE CRAFT/A EXPERIMENTACAO DO RISCO NA CARREIRA CRIATIVA: O CASO DE MESTRES DA CULTURA DO ARTESANATO CEARENSE

Risk has become ever more present during the experimentation of contemporary life, particularly in the professional field. From this argument, this qualitative research investigates how the risk is experienced or lived in creative careers, specifically, in careers of artisans awarded with the title of "Masters of Traditional Popular Culture", granted by the State Government of Ceara. We articulate the literature on risk and creative careers together with the reports of the experiences of the respondents in a such way that led us conclude that although there are differences in protection factors mobilized by artisans to deal with risk in their professional lives, they faced and guided their behavior to face such experiments in very similar ways. Parting from these similarities, the craftsmen: rethought the ways of doing their work; found alternatives to deal with the experimentation of risk in their lives; discovered new ways to think about the meanings of their craft; and developed alternative ways to continue to develop their creative careers.