Comments on: Failure Is Increasingly the Rage among Young Artists http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/05/08/failure-is-increasingly-the-rage-among-young-artists/ Where hope springs eternal in the eye of the artist. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:21:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: bob schulz http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/05/08/failure-is-increasingly-the-rage-among-young-artists/#comment-1118 bob schulz Mon, 19 May 2008 20:51:49 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/05/08/failure-is-increasingly-the-rage-among-young-artists/#comment-1118 Actually I know of more than one person, after having attended more than one art school, scrambling to make a living doing anything completely unconnected to art. The most recent quit after five years of wasted tuition and loans. So sad as almost any other degree could have led to a career. How honest is it for an art school to take tuition for instruction like as not to lead nowhere? Or, for that matter, for a secondary counselor encouraging a student to follow their "heart" and "dreams" and go to art school? Does any culture, ours included, need 10,000 BFAs every semester? Shouldn't disclosure of the statistical possibility of not becoming de Kooning or Warhol be part of any undergraduate program? Think of how many senior graduate exhibits you have wandered through, finally taking your leave muttering, "what can anyone be thinking in here?" No reply necessary. Actually I know of more than one person, after having attended more than one art school, scrambling to make a living doing anything completely unconnected to art. The most recent quit after five years of wasted tuition and loans. So sad as almost any other degree could have led to a career.

How honest is it for an art school to take tuition for instruction like as not to lead nowhere? Or, for that matter, for a secondary counselor encouraging a student to follow their “heart” and “dreams” and go to art school?

Does any culture, ours included, need 10,000 BFAs every semester? Shouldn’t disclosure of the statistical possibility of not becoming de Kooning or Warhol be part of any undergraduate program?

Think of how many senior graduate exhibits you have wandered through, finally taking your leave muttering, “what can anyone be thinking in here?” No reply necessary.

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