[JManc]

Here in Houston, a lot of artists rent spaces/studios in collaborative art galleries that are converted warehouses. Quite a few of them around the city with new ones sprouting up all time. Whether they're painters, sculptors or whatever, this seems to be the trend in a business that does not have a steady revenue stream. They go home to typical apartments or houses and drive a Camry. I have a painter friend to rents a typical two bedroom apartment west of town and uses one of them as a studio and has a normal 9-5 to pay the bills.