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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Heard great things about VCU
And SCAD - Savannah College of Art and Design[/quote]

SCAD takes pretty much anyone.[b] Seems a little scammy.[/b][/quote]

I agree.  A FCPS parent I know went this route when another "art school" didn't work out.  [/quote]

SCAD is not very selective but some of their alum have gone on to be very successful.  One of my good friends from college has been a professor in the fashion department there for 15+ years.  She has a number of former students that have been on project runway and are now successful designers.

One thing that SCAD does well is partner with established organizations and businesses to give their students exposure.  There was a time a while back that West Elm had a partnership with SCAD and was selling work/designs by students.  The historic preservation department is responsible for the revitalization of downtown Savannah.

That said, I have a niece who graduated from SCAD a few years ago and has been unsuccessful in finding a job in her field. But she also has some mental health struggles.

The people who become successful as artists and designers need to have some hustle and drive. They need to be the kind of people that go after opportunities and work hard at putting themselves out there.  My DC is also interested in art school, but they don’t have the motivation and drive to become a gallery artist so I am steering them towards a field that will lead to a creative career - architecture, animation, graphic design, etc.

I’m the pp above who graduated from art school, and there is a good mix of people who are still working in art/creative fields, and those who have switched to something completely different.

Art field: art professor, fashion designer, lighting designer, working/gallery artist, art teacher (k-12), graphic design, prop design/construction for movies, scenic painter for movies, photographer, museum educator, arts non-profit director, game designer. So there are many MANY different possibilities.

Art school graduates who are not doing art - I know two that have become realtors, two that have gone into physical and occupational therapy and one is now a psychiatrist.

So even if they do a BFA, they can always go to graduate school in a different field if they want to do something else.[/quote]

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