<p>How much do you pay per month for art supply needed for your class and what and how much is covered by school?
If you can list which school, major, where and how you buy them: in school store, discount shop, mail order, Internet, that will be great.
I can’t figure out why some schools costs so much more than other because there is no consistency or pattern with schools’ name value, number or background of teachers, studio facility or remoteness the way room and board price obviously have,
I am talking about second tier art schools if that is the right word to describe it.</p>
<p>I pay about 100/mo for class and personal supplies and I'm taking 3 studio art classes at community college right now.</p>
<p>I just found out that art supplies for class are tax deductible, so save your receipts! You can get around a 20% return, which isn't a lot but certainly worthwhile.</p>
<p>Oh and there are many options for saving money that don't require buying low-quality supplies.</p>
<p>First of all, many students have extra supplies at the end of the semester that they won't use again. You can usually buy these discounted for your use the following semester. Craigslist also has a art supply section where you can sometimes find lower priced items.</p>
<p>Garage sales/ estate sales often have old art supplies. You might not be able to get new things, but oil paints hold up for a VERY long time so they can be safe to buy.</p>
<p>Art stores like Utrecht give a student discount and also send out coupons about once a month. Craft stores like Michaels also have weekly coupons for about 40 or 50% off one item, this can work wonderfully if you are buying a single high price item. </p>
<p>Most professors at my community college will ensure that students can buy all their supplies for the cost of a text book.</p>
<p>So you are saying school does not supply anything? Say, if it is life drawing class, you go to studio, easels and model are there, maybe drawing board. No paper, communal pencil or thumbtack?</p>
<p>Yeah, that's pretty much it. The teacher might provide a piece of a paper and charcoal until you buy your own supplies, but it would be too expensive for the school to provide all those materials for every class!</p>
<p>Don't know about "proper" art schools though, but I highly, HIGHLY doubt that any schools provide all materials for students - save for digital arts. (even then, most own their own computers and software)</p>
<p>Not all professors use this, but many put their supply lists up here :</p>
<p>Blick-U</a> - Blick Art Materials</p>
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<p>Utrecht's</a> school art supplies program will help students stock up and save.</p>
<p>Browsing around the lists might give you a good starting estimate.</p>
<p>Not even a thumbtack...</p>
<p>there are thumbtacks to post work on the wall during critiques, but I don't know when else you'd need one. </p>
<p>If you do a lot of artwork currently, you should already have a feel for how quickly you go through materials like pencils, erasers, sketchbooks, paints ect.</p>
<p>Just wanted to say thanks to emifinan for all the tips on how to save money on art supplies and how to estimate future costs of supplies...</p>
<p>On its website, RISD advises prospective students to plan of spending roughly $2000 per year for art supplies. My son is now a senior ID major there and he has averaged roughly $250 - 275 per month but that includes very expensive materials like exotic woods and sheet metal for some of his furniture projects. Some of his friends with majors like animation, painting, and jewelry have spent a little less -- but at least $200 a month is about right.</p>
<p>That $ 3k plus will add up to RISD's what now, more than $40K..
Are they allowed to buy materials from any sources? I have heard their in school store has monopoly, which add to the schools operation budget.
How students are to afford that, job? Or parents have to simply count them as part of the cost.
If then school says fees and materials $ 9000, it is never $5 a sheet of paper, but communal thumbtack or scotch tapes
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<p>There is no store monopoly. RISD students are free to buy their art supplies from whatever source they want to. The RISD Store (for books, paper, and nearly all basic art supplies) and the Metcalf Store (for lumber and sheet metal) are certainly the most convenient since they are located right on campus, but there is also a Utrecht Art Supply within walking distance (roughly a mile away) down on Wickenden Street. Also, many students buy supplies on-line.</p>
<p>My son has also bought tools and supplies for his ID studios at Home Depot and Lowes, where they are slightly cheaper (especially tools). Both stores are located in Seekonk, MA, and RISD's Office of Student Life runs shuttle vans to Seekonk about every two weeks during the school year.</p>
<p>All of the art schools that my son considered had a similar policy regarding art supplies -- i.e., students were responsible for buying their own and they could buy them wherever they wanted to.</p>
<p>Tools!? what tools?
We took RISD tour and the guide said sudents can use any tools as they need in studios anytime, and there were beautiful cabinet full of heavy tools I don't know what they are called, those stuff to cut and bent and hold things together.
You mean, ID kids need to owe one of those himself?
Where do they keep them and how they get around with them on those hills and stairs?
What happen to the big project after its done, send home or recycled, reused? I guess my question is, how much strage place one could have for how long?</p>
<p>Tools? When my DD attended RISD (graduated 4 yrs ago), the average supplies and materials costs were similar to hose that W_M mentions -- about $200-$250 per month. She majored in ID also. But if you're in, say, painting, you're going to have serious costs for supplies.</p>
<p>RISD put out a list of tools, which I'm not sure was major-specific, for incoming students to buy. From memory, her tools included: electric drill (recharchable battery) and drill set, dremel (needed this for ID), pliers (needle-nose and regular, with wire cutter), allen (hex key) wrenches, crescent wrench, hammer, screwdrivers (flat and phillips), files (metal, wood), exacto knife, saw, drawing compass, tape measure. Buy a tool kit or fishing tackle box to hold the stuff.</p>
<p>Oh, OK those kind. phew.
Wait, you are saying painting costs more than ID?</p>
<p>I can't make an exact comparison, but your paper, canvas, wood/frames, brushes, paint (oil is very expensive), and so forth are all something to deal with.</p>
<p>From RISD's FAQ: </p>
<p>"How much do art supplies typically cost per year?
Art supply expenses vary greatly by department of study. On average, RISD estimates supply costs at $2,300 a year." RISD</a> : Rhode Island School of Design : FAQS</p>