Study Shows Arts Eduction and a Life of Poverty Aren't Necessarily Hand in Hand

For anyone who has ever pursued a degree in the arts, known someone who has or is currently enrolled, or heck, ever had a conversation with anyone about higher education, the conventional wisdom is that an arts degree is, in addition to learning about and understanding art, also a sure fire method of living in poverty from the moment you receive your degree until the day you expire in some miserable hovel (preferably in some dark part of Paris for dramatic effect, if at all possible).

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