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Running Total Collective Artist Debt

$57,486,172.17
Anonymous86
Are you in debt How Did you get into Debt?

Although the amount in debt seems relatively small, my annual income as a part-time faculty doesn't allow me to pay any of it off; it just continues to accumulate. It all started while getting my Bachelor's degree, continuing to my Master's and beyond. I worked while in school to keep my debt as low as possible and feel I did succeed in that. Since working as a part-time faculty, my expenses do usually exceed being able to pay the debt off and I'm also constantly trying to find other jobs to make the difference. 

How do you make a living?

I work as a part-time faculty at HCC, which alone doenst really pay for much, given the limit of hours an adjunct is allowed to teach at a given semester. So I'm in constant search for other part-time jobs to pay my bills and to keep my schedule flexible enough to continue making work. At any given time, I am juggling between 3-5 diffrent jobs that include my art practice. As of right now, I try to keep jobs that deal with art practices of some form. But I question my realtion to that all the time. It would be much easier to make a living in a full time job of any other kind. Art jobs are rare and hard to get. 

How does your debt affect your art practice?

My debt certainly affects my practice. Maybe not in an obvious way, but it puts a strain financially on the materials I can use and places a huge strain on me mentally. I am always worrying on how I can continue to make a living or better my living. I did not go into an art practice with naive notions of fame. I just want to make a decent living from one job and my artistic practice without me having to expand myself into 4 different people. I'm always just having to make the situation work. Sometimes it works fine, but it mostly doesn't, and I'm left feeling that if I let one thing go, everything will fall apart. 

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