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Joanna Woronkowicz, Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

It’s always been hard to make it as an artist in America – and it’s becoming only harder

About 2.4 million Americans are artists, or 1% of the workforce. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

“Being an artist is not viewed as a real job.”

It’s a sentiment I’ve heard time and again, one that echoes across studios, rehearsal halls and kitchen tables – a quiet frustration that the labor of making art rarely earns the legitimacy or security afforded to other kinds of work.

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