So I lost my job several months ago. I got the job because I

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So I lost my job several months ago.
I got the job because I recieved a blast email from a teacher from my art school in charge of job placement, that an alumni was currently hiring for his company and was looking at my school's graduates.

I worked at that company for almost 4 years. During that time, I never received a similar email from my job placement teacher if anyone else was looking to hiring graduates from my school.

Now, my art school was a trade school. While I learned a shitload, it pretty much prepared and trained us on how to make a living as an artist, which is mostly freelance. The blast emails the graduates would get from the job placement teacher were mostly about clients asking artists to do freelance work for them.

My family has suggested, that since I technically got this job through my school, that I should contact the job placement teacher and ask if he knows anyone from another company that's hiring.

I personally don't see the point in this, because if someone was currently looking for graduates to hire, I would get a blast email about it. I still get blast emails every now and then, but it's few and far between and it's only for freelance work.
I also don't want to approach the job placement teacher because since the school's whole mission is to train us into being great artists to make a living on our art, he may think it's weird to ask about any companies looking to hire. Like I feel like the response would be "why are you not just producing art and make a living off that?". I would if the freelance art world wasn't so competitive.

What would you Do? Should I contact the job placement teacher and ask if he knows of any companies currently looking to hire? Or should I not even bother since the job placement teacher isn't actually making a referral for students, he just finds gigs for us to apply to if we're interested?