Why don't art schools teach artists how to market their work?

Most art schools, even expensive ones, don’t offer a single class on marketing your art. Students can spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on their education but graduate with zero knowledge of how to make money from their creations. This is a fundamental gap in art education that leaves talented artists without the business skills they need to succeed.

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Asked by a photographer who attended art school · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2025-02-18