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verbminxGetting frustrated by the variety of educational sites out there.
Specifically, it's that time of year & I'm doing something I actually should have done a few months ago, but I was too fuzzy-headed at the time: going to the sites of various schools and requesting applications. This is more time-consuming than it seems, because some schools (art schools, mostly) completely bury their information under a load of Flash animations, and/or won't allow you to have their phone number unless you fill out an online info request form first (every time I've ever filled out an info request form, I've had to call anyway because the info took months to arrive). Parsons is the worst in this regard.
Right now I am looking at the School of Visual Arts site, which is a bit less arcane and pretentious. I've already been through Mass Arts (legacy with a friend on the faculty, but I doubt either will help me get in), MFA School / Tufts, and Northeastern. Still to go are a few NYC places (places Autumn has talked about, since she's been to basically every major college in the area for at least a class or two) and, Eris help me, Cleveland places.
The NYC places, in general, seem to be more difficult in terms of admission requirements, I think simply for the cachet of the following statement: "I went to art school in New York City." You know what I mean. & none of these places are Cooper Union, either (if you're good enough to get in to Cooper Union, there's no tuition fee AT ALL).
I feel so stressed. I have to really get to work on my portfolio. A problem I've had with that is that a lot of schools want in-class assignments, and I have found so many assignments at my school totally uninspiring. Some that I've done well with are disqualified from portfolio consideration, because they are riffs on someone else's art or style (for instance, a painting I did that I'm proud of, a big enlargement of an anime-style eye). So I have to scramble to do, like, ten things that I'm proud of sometime in the next month or so. Things I'm Proud Of usually take at least a week of solid work, at least 12 hours each day.
I'm feeling a little discouraged when I should be feeling energized. Maybe I should take a whole semester off just for portfolio work... but I can't afford to do that. Pretty much at all.
I wish I had more ideas or more time or less freaking illness.
Specifically, it's that time of year & I'm doing something I actually should have done a few months ago, but I was too fuzzy-headed at the time: going to the sites of various schools and requesting applications. This is more time-consuming than it seems, because some schools (art schools, mostly) completely bury their information under a load of Flash animations, and/or won't allow you to have their phone number unless you fill out an online info request form first (every time I've ever filled out an info request form, I've had to call anyway because the info took months to arrive). Parsons is the worst in this regard.
Right now I am looking at the School of Visual Arts site, which is a bit less arcane and pretentious. I've already been through Mass Arts (legacy with a friend on the faculty, but I doubt either will help me get in), MFA School / Tufts, and Northeastern. Still to go are a few NYC places (places Autumn has talked about, since she's been to basically every major college in the area for at least a class or two) and, Eris help me, Cleveland places.
The NYC places, in general, seem to be more difficult in terms of admission requirements, I think simply for the cachet of the following statement: "I went to art school in New York City." You know what I mean. & none of these places are Cooper Union, either (if you're good enough to get in to Cooper Union, there's no tuition fee AT ALL).
I feel so stressed. I have to really get to work on my portfolio. A problem I've had with that is that a lot of schools want in-class assignments, and I have found so many assignments at my school totally uninspiring. Some that I've done well with are disqualified from portfolio consideration, because they are riffs on someone else's art or style (for instance, a painting I did that I'm proud of, a big enlargement of an anime-style eye). So I have to scramble to do, like, ten things that I'm proud of sometime in the next month or so. Things I'm Proud Of usually take at least a week of solid work, at least 12 hours each day.
I'm feeling a little discouraged when I should be feeling energized. Maybe I should take a whole semester off just for portfolio work... but I can't afford to do that. Pretty much at all.
I wish I had more ideas or more time or less freaking illness.
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Date: 2001-02-06 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-02-06 12:29 pm (UTC)One of my cooler uncles actually lives in Kent. KSU does reputedly have a good graphic design department, one that is actually noted because it's selective & gives its students real-world experience with its own design agency.
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Date: 2001-02-07 06:36 am (UTC)KSU's graphic design is very difficult (a friend of mine was in the program for the first 3 years before he moved to Florida... he was always stressed out with the work). The head printmaking prof here is excellent as are 2 of the surface design profs (both are working artists, renouned in their fields, so class with them is a dream).
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Date: 2001-02-06 11:41 am (UTC)Re: art schools
Date: 2001-02-06 12:35 pm (UTC)Re: art schools
Date: 2001-02-06 12:38 pm (UTC)Re: art schools
Date: 2001-02-07 12:27 am (UTC)