Can I Do A Different Kind of Schooling?

What kind of groups outside schooling or education can offer the same creative environment?

• Answer:

  Art scenes, movements, cliques and innovative collaborations can generate social networks. Some of these seminal groups have historically formed in times of censorship. For example, the Impressionist period in France. Several factors, some of which are mysterious, need to be in place to support the environment. Sometimes, it can be as simple as having plenty of cheap studio space available and other times it's complicated, for instance the patronage system, the wealth and many other conditions that started The Renaissance. It can be a calculated act, as when Andy Warhol threw parties at The Factory to attract the people he used as a base. It can be accidental, too, just a matter of being there at the right place and time.