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You Don’t Need Art School, Coaches and Mentors Rock Success

July 22, 2024

What if you don’t need art school? It’s expensive (an MFA can  cost as much as $70k/yr). It may not come with a big payoff but your loans could total as much as $65k.  Could coaches and mentors suffice? I never went to art school for a degree so maybe ignore this whole post. Or maybe coaches and mentors rock success like nobody’s business-I’ll use my remaining years to find out.

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