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This is such a great discussion, so many great points. I started art school for graphic design in the fall of 2007, a similar time to you, and I can't believe how prices have ballooned since. I remember when I started, one class was $1800, near the end of my BFA it was about $2200 per class, a $400 increase over the 4.5 years. Not sure I would recommend it for those who want to do graphic design today, there are other ways to get to the same destination. I definitely do not recommend for traditional fine arts, for that path just take other online classes or one-off continuing education classes at your community college, university, or even art school. It gives you a taste of what to learn, then go out and use the internet to build your own business around your art. Applied art degrees like graphic design actually can lead to real well-paying jobs, paid way more now than back when I graduated, due to the sheer fact of how much more design is in demand and recognized as important to a business's growth vs it being an after thought 15-20 years ago. But of course it depends on the industry, the company, your skills and location. While traditional arts are for the motivated self-employed / entrepreneurial business owners, at least that's the best way to make a success out of it.

Love this, Mel. Who do you get your prints made through?

A video on adapting to various energy levels would be great, it's definitely a struggle sometimes

your sketchbook is even more special now that your cat helped and put its own mark 😻

Love this method, Mel! I definitely want to spend the month of January taking more time to process and reflect before setting goals!

Woah, this was an awesome structure for reflecting back on the year. I like the do-it-along format with indicated moments to pause - I did the exercise just now with you. I was surprised with items from all three lists and I noticed how I initially had a bit of fear and dread that I haven't done enough this year, and the resulting lists help me see how irrational that is. This exercise indeed helped me cultivate more self compassion and understanding, so thank you again :3

This was a super charming video. You achieved a lot! I never thought to track hiking miles. I need more community like this, so I'll definitely check out your links!

Great concept! Also, that twig-held mic is so cute heheh All three lists are great, such a human approach to being data-driven! :) Thank you Kate and to Mel for sharing what Kate shared with you 😁 And and yes to that energy levels video 🫂

Definitely coming back to this with a list and more notes.

I love that you are also a simmer!! 🤗

💖💖 Your heart, spirit, and soul are absolutely beautiful

Also, good health to you in the New Year, @PersistentBloom @MelMitchJackArt

Adapting to your varying energy levels does sound like an interesting subject for a video.

that was pretty helpful. Thank you!

I rarely leave comments. But as a current grad student at RISD, I’m very thankful to come across your video! Thank you for reminding us the beauty of this world that many have forgotten ❤

Love this and love you !

Great work. I love the process stuff.

Thanks for sharing this and also showing us an example! I’m going to take also the book recommendation!

Thank you for your video!

Great video that speaks volumes, thank you! I went to art school in the 80's ( SAIC & Pratt ) and it wasn't nearly as expensive as the numbers you're quoting today. The business part of art was never taught in school but I wish they did. We all had desires of making a living in art but were aware of the slim chance that would ever happen. Art education was about enriching our lives as creative people, not business.

Art is a way of laundering money nowdays

I always said if I were to win the lottery I would go to art school. This is why!!!

came for art school closure, stayed for the insightful talk about learning different skillsets from different places, and tackling an issue holistically. Can't make money through art alone? Get a day job to fund it maybe. Maybe that day job can instill skills to market those very art skills so that you wouldn't need a day job. Really fascinating the way you approach this subject!!!

I enjoyed the sketchbook tour. Absolutely beautiful! I also enjoyed the conversation of breaking up with your phone. Being stuck, just endlessly scrolling, really feels like an out-of-body experience 😵‍💫. You inspire me to step away digitally and explore/appreciate nature.

You're so talented. You can see your passion for the natural world in every page. Making me realise just how beautiful Turtle Island is!

Did you love a sketch in the video? Snag a print of this sketchbook on my INPRNT shop with 20% off for Black Friday! www.inprnt.com/gallery/jackmitchmel/ Also, join the community on Discord and hang out in a Sketchbook Club before the end of the year! discord.gg/qZTUxQ24J7

Lovely inspiring video! I think you'd enjoy the TV show Arcane as it plays around with the ideas of nature clashing out with humanity's desire for infinite progress, where hope can still bloom in the unlikeliest of places, no matter how hard things get.

As an illustrator, I'm not a fine artist, but I found myself nodding to a lot of what you were saying. The honest truth of these worlds needs to be spoken plainly like this for the benefit of creatives and the public.

Your voice is so soothing yet your message is powerful. Thank you for this video.

“It means a lot to recommend things to one another as humans” Love your insights, thank you for the prompts 💟

I'm very thankful for this video. As a practicing doomster, it's not always easy to manage my mood and these long narrations help a lot to sleep well.

Love this video and your beautiful painting. I feel a bit more hopeful :)

Beautiful video Mel! I love all of these prompts and look forward to working through them! Excited to connect more on Discord too!

very much appreciated, Mel~ the symbolism and storytelling feels like warmth, hope, and resilience ♡⸜(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⸝♡

Ah I like the comment of Becky Chambers had Octavia Butler!!! I am a huge fan of Science Fiction and I have been gravitating towards these authors after the madness (I am reading Becky Chambers A Prayer for the Crown-Shy and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I would recommend slow cozy solar punk sci fi movies like: The Pod Generation: ruclips.net/video/4GKor2DuVSo/видео.html&ab_channel=Vertical After Yang: ruclips.net/video/Kwp32zLc08c/видео.html&ab_channel=A24

Really dope painting

Hey I also went to KCAI! Wild. Love this video.

Thanks for sharing. It's very inspirational to see you struggle and perserve (and bloom!). I've been having a bad couple of weeks and this video honestly was something I really needed. I'm not an artist but I have dreams I want to pursue and it's encouraging to see others follow their dreams.

Not joking but you should watch the Berkshire Hathaway meetings that Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger hold for their investors. You're approach of following your passion and money will come naturally has been their mantra advice for people who are focused more on the money than passion. Yes a lot of questions are about investing, but the answers are more general and in the form of a life story and lessons learned. And I think many people will be surprised by them.

Ahhh I’m watching all the videos here and my partner and I are ultralight backcountry backpackers (we live in Seattle and it’s my first year here) and I’ve been dyyyying to bring my stuff but I was scared to bringing extra weight. Tomorrow we are doing regular camping for the first time (with a large tent and a car ⛺️) and I’m trying out the setup you are suggesting since we have day hikes planned! This video made me so excited! 😊 saludos to all the wild art people out there.

That was so interesting! Thank you for sharing, i love learning about all these ways to make money AND feel fulfilled with art :)

I feel ya, I studied graphic design cause my family wouldn't allow art school (Im Mexican and grew up there so art schools are also rare which I kinda feel grateful now however I actually ended up working as a freelance video editor lol. My dream has always been to be an illustrator and I actually got a clients and got to publish children's toys years ago but maaaaaaaaaaan the illustration market is so competitive and I couldn't just leave my old design job to pursue this passion so at the end I just stopped doing art until maybe 2 years ago when i tried to get back to it. As a freelance video editor I feel a bit more confident now to just do art for my sake rather than as a job. I also completely left social media since It was giving me so much anxiety and frustration to see all this illustration accounts upload SO MUCH content all the time that I just had it. Now I gotta say that as a hobbie or as time off I enjoy making art for the sake of making art and getting in the flow and I can just have a job. And this is ok. Love the channel, I just found it and the content is great! Keep up the good work.

Oh, is this a re-upload? Or am I just having deja vu?

I’m just gonna go ahead and like this video right away because I know your stuff and it’s always good!

It's a little weird how much of art school can be made to sound like a cult. The terminology that only those in the know would know(like, not everyone would know what foundations is). And the hours spent doing endless labor to a mysterious unknown end...

I just found you and I am glad I did! I used to make so much art but liiiife.

So many good points here to consider for any Fine Arts students/graduates that want to take the next step into post-grad (primarily for a career move and love of teaching, rather than for the pure curiosity of undertaking an in-depth creative research project). While the University arts education system is perhaps a little different in Australia, there are so many parallels to what you've mentioned. Many of the permanent lecturers (amazing artists/educators of course) simply benefited from just getting in before this mass-casualisation of the academic workforce. A decent percentage of these permanent employees are still in the process of undertaking their terminal degrees (Fine Arts Doctorates in Australia), whilst newcomers are expected to have already have a doctorate, a solid research portfolio, years of teaching experience ,and to be nationally, if not internationally recognised, as established artists before even being considered for an entry-level permanent position. Such extreme career requirements enforce a two-tiered system in Universities, in which the bulk of the teaching staff (casual tutors), are divided from permanent lecturers, who through this delegation, are enabled to maintain a research career and are also relied upon to maintain the system from a more managerial perspective. It's quite a broken, exploitative and horrible way of running art schools (especially for young and passionate educators who sacrifice so much energy for their teaching) and it's also bad for students, whose education would benefit greatly from continuity in an educator's professional development. If still super keen (for Australia/UK at least), get a PhD with a Scholarship attached and begin building a stellar arts research portfolio immediately - it's the only sustainable path into a Fine Arts Higher-Ed career I've identified. Great to hear that you've decided to take another path!

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Well said!!!! I am wondering about these art institutes. Have they over extended themselves sacrificing their operating budget for capital campaigns? I am asking that being out of touch with the world of art education. Fundraising for a capital campaign significantly differs from fundraising for operations. Also, what is the mindset of the individual and organizational donors who provide endowments? Have they changed their priorities? Perhaps the economic trade cycle had imposed horrific burdens on these institutions since the Great Recession of 2008. Or, perhaps bloated administrative costs have finally choked these institutes and colleges. A friend of mine had attended Bloomington obtaining a masters in the visual arts. A majority graduates in the year before he graduated found faculty positions at universities. When he graduated, not one graduate found a position at a university. Only one of his peers ended up teaching in a junior college. That was back in the mid to late seventies if I recall correctly. The best instructions for the fine visual arts is on a one-to-one basis. Find an accomplished artist whose work you appreciate and arrange to have her or him teach you privately. It will cost but far less than the tuition charged from these well known colleges and institutes.

Apart from professional schools, you are talking about the whole of academia. It is a pyramid scheme of meaninglessness.