To be a successful artist what kind of schools should you apply to?

It depends on what type of art you are going to specialize in, but over all I don't think an art degree even matters, much less where you got it from. If you are going for medical illustration, then yes you need a degree, but anything else it's about who you know, where you are, and being at the right place at the right time. I have an art degree, and I can tell you it doesn't mean anything. When people are going to hire you, they want to see your portfolio, not where you went to school. While not tying to be pessimistic, you want to make sure there's actually jobs in the field you want to get into before going to school for it. We're in a recession right now, and people are going to be spending what little money they have on basics not art. I'm going to guess you're in either your senior or junior year in high school. My advice is to work for a year (yes, I'm saying don't go to college right away), and get a feel for what it's like to work for 40 hours a week, and if you can get yourself an apartment, try to live on your own. I had a lot of fun in college, and it is a worthwhile experience, but it did nothing to prepare me for a career or even living on my own. If you work for a year after high school, you'll learn a lot about yourself, what you like in jobs, and what you dislike. It may make you even change your mind in what you want to go to school for.

I went through this last year. IF YOU WANT TO BE IN ART GO TO AN ART SCHOOL. Alright reason behind this, artists go to art school. You have to have a Portfolio to go to art school. Good art inspires more good art, if you go to a school where anyone can get in it will bring you down as well. You do not need a big name, I got into prat and SCAD and i chose to go to a small name school called montserrat because it was a better fit for me with only 350 people in the school and a 9:1 student teacher ratio. Also you have more part time teachers in art schools which is a good thing, that means they are teaching and making art work on the side they are up to date in the art world. Also the more art work you do the better you get that means the bigger scholar ships you get. If worse comes to worse take a year off or go to another college, work your *** off so you can get scholar ships and get into an art school. Also review the work of schools that will tell you a lot about them. Sure thing email me anytime at [email protected]

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