Your Son’s approach to music is very similar to mine’s to her art. After taking 10 art classes at community colleges, by talking to professors, visiting artists, and classmates, she figured out that she doesn’t need a college degree for the way that she wants practice her art. Because she doesn’t want to get any art related job including teaching.
She would like to know the college’s ceramic lab’s accessibility and equipment, art style of professors and visiting artists to occasionally meet, and local workshops or galleries. She doesn’t want to minor art or even take art classes if she can have those. All of them are much easier to find with web search and email.