I think my project is also related to ‘the employment of art students’.
From my own experience, it is very hard to find a job for a fine art background student. They only know how to paint, and most of them want to be artists and make a living by selling paintings. But after graduation, they find out how cruel the reality is.
More than half of my undergraduate classmates did not take up art-related jobs after graduation. Maybe because ‘art’ is a quite personal thing, and it’s hard to find someone who appreciates your artworks and is happy to pay for it.
Some data:
- After 2010, the employment rate of art undergraduates was less than 30%, the unemployment rate of fine arts was as high as 15.6%, the unemployment rate of musicology was 15%, and the turnover rate of art, design and media majors was as high as 54% within half a year.
- With the implementation of the enrollment expansion of the college entrance examination, the popularity of the art examination began to rise in 2002, with the number of art examinees rising from 32,000 in that year to more than 1 million in 2013.According to the Ministry of Education, 1.17 million people registered for the national art exam in 2020.