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Originally Posted by JohnR
My son wants to do art. I want to encourage him to do what he loves. Then I take him through Walmart and tell him he'll be lucky if this is where he can shop with an art degree. I don't want to seem like I'm pi$$ing on starving artists but I would like to see him not being starving in art, and me paying for it.
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I have a BFA
Remember that to want to study art doesn't necessarily mean you're going to make a living from it. Odds are he'll find out in the first few years if that's what he really wants to do by picking a specialty, or pivot to something related where the creativity can be used in a more predictable manner.
Sometimes you just have to learn by doing. I certainly didn't have my path plotted at 18.
-spence