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Art School in General
Your parents will not be happy about your choice to study art.
What they don’t know is that there is a whole new world of art waiting to be discovered. I had a friend at university who told me she was very concerned about getting a job after graduating. Well, we both carried on anyway and eventually I saw her again working at the library. She said she had been working there to pay the bills since she now had some solid cred as a person who knows about books. On top of that she was doing a remote internship as an apprentice editor where she would read books for a publishing company. She also said that she was doing some freelance editing on the side.
What I am trying to say is that there is no end to opportunities in the art world. Your ticket in the door is a relevant set of skills. If it sounds like she was doing a lot of work, you would be right. Still, this work is different than flipping-burgers or smiling when you see a customer. The work she was doing takes all the skills she worked hard to learn, and so it’s fulfilling like none other.
That said, you might be thinking you can gather these skills on your own. That may very well be true. If you know the books to read, you put in the work it takes to make the knowledge a part of your practice. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but most people are just average…
