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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by elil17 on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:39PM (#21893258)
Show them the website of the American Visionary Art Museum. It’s a museum for art made by people who never went to art school. It’s filled with stories of people who had rich lives as artists alongside other careers.

You don’t need art school to be an artist. http://www.avam.org/

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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by thanatropism on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:49PM (#21893354)
The museum might be cool but that website is badly designed enough to testify against this idea of being a self-taught artist.
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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by elil17 on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:55PM (#21896985)
The museum is actually run by a mime (who did have formal training)!
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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by itronitron on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:09PM (#21895177)
incidentally, a folk artist is simply an artist that does not have a formal art education
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