The other thing I do

I have a confession to make...I've probably hinted about it on this blog before, although I've never actually come right out and said it, I don't think.  Some may look down on me for it, some may think less of me, but I don't care, I just have to say it...

...I am an actor.

Once, I was even in a play where we all got our pictures on a big billboard.  My mom saved the part of the billboard that had my giant face on it.  Then occasionally I pose in front of it, because it's awesome.

Yes, it is true.  But I had to get it off my chest and out in the open, because it's as big a part of me as art is!  I've been doing both of them for about as long: for as long as I could pick up a marker or a crayon, I've been drawing, and for as long as I could stand up and say words, I've been acting.  And heck, theatre was how I met my husband, how I got my first job, and how I got a lot of my first freelance art/design gigs.  I owe a lot to it.

Why an arts degree is (almost?) as valuable as a business degree

I see these posts on Facebook from time to time that my theatre friends share: Why a theatre degree is better than a business degree.  They make excellent points, for sure, and I do feel like my theatre skills have helped me in my regular career a lot (both in my art business and in my various "day jobs" I've had throughout the years).

But I don't have a theatre degree.  My degree was a BFA in illustration.  Is that valuable, too?  You betcha.

Making canvases that double as hurricane barricades: one of the many valuable skills you learn at art school.

 Here's why I think that people with fine arts degrees are just as prepared for The Real World, whatever that means, as people with business degrees: