Why Are Artists Told They Can’t Make It?
When I was studying Fine Arts at FIT, one piece of advice came up more than almost anything else in our business classes: “Get a day job.” To be fair, that’s not bad advice. We live in an unforgiving capitalist society. Rent is due whether your paintings sell or not. Health insurance doesn’t care about your creative ambitions. Most artists will need another source of income at some point in their careers. But for me, that advice landed differently. Maybe it was growing up Catholic. Maybe it...
