Why Art Schools Keep Closing

Art schools keep closing, and I was way too intimately tangled in their web. So let’s discuss.

Can they be saved or is it time for something new to take their place?

I love doing these spicy video essays on the art. Lemme me know your thoughts in the comments.💕

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✨INSPIRATION & RESOURCES FOR THIS VID✨:
Why Are Art Schools Closing? by James Gurney
https://substack.com/home/post/p-1465...

Student Loans Calculator:
https://smartasset.com/student-loans/...

The unacceptable actions surrounding the closure of University of the Arts:
https://www.onstageblog.com/editorial...

Enrollment Declines Threaten Small, Independent Art Colleges
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/i...

MOMA Layoffs in 2020:
https://hyperallergic.com/551571/moma...

How to Read International Art English:
https://hyperallergic.com/55500/how-t...
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✨CHAPTERS✨:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Defining Art School and the Closures
1:41 The Tuition is Too Damn High
6:25 The Math isn’t Mathing
9:26 I learned NOTHING about Business
10:00 Art World Delusion
12:50 I Drank the Kool-Aid and I Failed
16:07 My Contagious Delusion
19:51 “Is there an audience for my work?”
21:18 Stop Teaching How to “Art World”
24:44 Funding Disconnect
27:00 The Cliff
28:43 SO… What Now?!
32:38 A DOSE OF HOPE


🎹 Like the music in the background? It’s by my amazing partner Wesley Jackson. I used clips of his instrumental work in this video.

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