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hello! So i'm applying this year, again. I got accepted this spring at CSM,unconditional offer- but did not receive the scholarship which I so desperately needed,such a bummer,anyway i'm hoping to apply to yale this year,I am wondering how tough is the competition.Since i am desperate for a full ride and apparently yale offers one just to figure out my chances. Also getting accepted into the school of your choice and not receiving the funding sucks big time still experiencing alot of burn from that . Goodluck everyone! p.s my website www.nairamushtaq.com any insight on work is also welcome.

Hi palmtress, I have been offered a place at both CSM and Wimbledon so confused between the two,have you decided on which one yet?

hello! Congrats on the interview and i hope you get in, if you don't mind me asking what program did you apply for? I've applied as an international student for the visual arts program haven't heard anything yet getting really nervous. best

YOUR WORK IS STUNNNING! I'm so in awe of everyone's work on this thread, makes me scared posting my link, but would love to hear feed back. https://naira-mushtaq.squarespace.com/

hi everyone! still waiting on someone to critique the statement,best of luck to everyone apply in this session!

okay so i'm looking for someone to critique my statement, it's my first draft with tons of errors,grammatical and otherwise. i just want to know if i going in the right direction.this honestly is the most daunting bit in applying process and for me it's make or break situation. any opinion is welcome. "I do not have tall tales to tell ,I do not come from a family of gypsies, I have not had a traumatic upbringing or traumatized by tales of terror that have ridden this country. I just might be your average joe from a middle class family, brought up by parents who invested every penny they earned into providing me and my siblings the best of everything. I am; what I have made myself by working hard , the ethic that has been instilled in me for as long I can remember. That is not to say that I will remain an average joe or I have become comfortable in my little bubble but that is my driving force that is what pushes me every single day to strive for more and to better myself. For as long as I can remember I have know that art was my calling it was all that I could do and to this day it rings true the journey to this stage of my life has not been bed of roses but there is nothing that I will change. this is my story and I want to write it with every ounce of passion and a full force of commitment that I have for the path that I chosen for myself. My obsession with collecting objects started as a young girl, I used to obsessively collect anything that a had even an ounce of sentimental value, to a point where there was nothing but bags and bags of full used candy wrappers,paper clippings,birthday cards, ice cream sticks ,gift wrappers under my bed. I had unknowingly turned into a hoarder at the tender age of 8 before I could even comprehend the meaning of the word. As an adult I see now how that obsession has prevailed into my practice and have come value what my mother had termed and it really was; junk. My work revolves around my fascination with vernacular photographs,because these amateur visuals encase the illusion of memories, an overwhelming sense of nostalgia and an underlying mundanity resulting in a constant yearning for the past. This constant longing to be a part of something and yet distant from it is present in my work. My practice is a mirror image of this volatile enthrallment with the unattainable. The only evidential record of our lives is our memory of a kaleidoscopic chain of events, images, sounds, smells and feelings. In short these impressions are of abiding value to my sense of self. All the different changes from physical to digital as each causing subtle or more drastic alterations to the original image. I think of it as be analogous to how memory works. After each time we remember something, that mental image is further from the original. I want to establish an universal familiarity with each image, allowing viewers to extract their own personal meaning and creating for themselves a space within the frame, through ownership of the emotion that is explored within, as one that is recognizably their own that tug of war between the viewer and his/ desire to pin down that hazy memory that my work has evoked is a very important part of the process. …………………………………………………………….. "

HELLO! so i'm applying for an MFA in visual arts and since i'm an international student,i'm looking for a very solid funding other than fullbright, is anyone aware of any such school that offers a full ride in US. i am also planning to apply at CSM and Chelsea since they both offer one fully funded scholarship.Would really appreciate any help and later i will also be posting my artist statement *when i and if i finally get to penning it down*. Looking forward to hear from you guys and good luck to those applying.

thanks kafralal ! phew! yaaay! =D the transfers in the the frames were actually a part of an installation, but with new work i'm trying to break from the very direct reference of the photograph, i think it should be a bit subtle. but yaaay! thank you, all of you! you guys give me hope! much love and luck =D

okay so posting my statement here, i do believe it's a little general but i don't know what else to do =p "The nature (for some a shortcoming and for some a saving grace) of human memory retention is it that it indelibly gets written over. the only evidential record of our lives is our memory of having lived through a kaleidoscopic chain of events - images, sounds, smells, feelings, in short- mere impressions of no objective value. The works explore the illusion of memories, overwhelming sense of nostalgia and underlying sense of everyday violence reflecting a constant yearning for the past, often in an idealized or distorted form. I used my personal experiences with memories to deconstruct others’ old family photographs, and create new, idealized, and illusionary moments. Each image evokes a certain mood and emotion encased in a memory- whether it is an eerie memory that you can’t quite put back together, or a dreamy, fantastical memory that you will never forget. The series tells a fragmented story of different emotions, moods, and moments that translates these foreign family photographs into something familiar and thought provoking. I wanted to establish a familiarity in each image, allowing viewers to extract their own personal meaning and be able to relate them to their own memories and past."

duly noted, and i completely agree, i have to update the images and this body of work is from my thesis show, i have new work which i will post soon. thanks you guys i really really appreciate it . i will put up my statement as well even though i think it's not very good but any criticism is better than none.

so i put up the link to my work in the last forum and i got a zero response, i'm almost scared to put it up again, =/. i could really use some insight arghh! you guys are all so talented,it's very intimidating

goodluck! do tell us how it goes, i am so envious of the most of you, you guys get to visit these schools,im applying as an international student,so yea =p

yaaaaayyyy! i love this new forum, also if anyone knows someone who applied to any of the following schools got in, they could perhaps tell us how the interview was? what sort of questions they asked etc. pratt RISD SVA SAIC YALE NYU add more if you want =)

ooooooooohh! yes yes! i wanted to know that too.

eeek! thanks much, my portfolio is okay,i don't know what the competition is,which obviously is A LOT, the portfolio's that i've seen on this forum are pretty neat, i haven't quite gotten around to my statement yet, which i probably should, i'll be getting recommendations from my teacher, most of them are slade alumni's . i had photography teacher who had an amazing experience at pratt, so she urged me to look into their program as well.are you a mfa student? where? im posting a link to my work here, i would love to hear what you have to say, anyone really. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saaucepanmancan/sets/ regards naira mushtaq

hello! my name is naira,his is an amazing forum, and all of you are so talented,i graduated this year with honors and ill be applying in 2014 to lots of schools for MFA in painting, i have a lot of confusion about which are best schools for painting, my top choices are sva,nyu,parsons,pratt,institute of chicago,boston university. risd and queens,can anyone tell me about their standard,gpa etc... im from pakistan so the visit to universities are out of question,and one can't glean a lot of hands on info from the websites. i'm in full throttle panic because i have to apply via fulbright scholarship there is also the factor that they apply to half the universities you request, the pressure of getting that scholarship and a good grad school is making me want to throw up.

hello! my name is naira,his is an amazing forum, and all of you are so talented,i graduated this year with honors and ill be applying in 2014 to lots of schools for MFA in painting, i have a lot of confusion about which are best schools for painting, my top choices are sva,nyu,parsons,pratt,institute of chicago,boston university. and queens,can anyone tell me about their standard,gpa etc... im from pakistan so the visit to universities are out of question,and one can't glean a lot of hands on info from the websites. i am also posting a link to my work here, I LOVE LOVE SOME INFO! =) regards naira mushtaq http://www.flickr.com/photos/saaucepanmancan/sets/

hello! i'll be giving my gre in oct.and the gre tutors here in pakistan are really expensive, i can only either pay the test fee which approx. around 18 grand or take tutions which is 20 grand,so im self studying and doing online tests, how bad of situation it is to not have tuitions?

hi! my name is naira,i'll be giving my gre in oct, and i'll be apply via full bright scholarship, im an art student, i was wondering if anyone her is is one aswell, and does anyone know how much score is required,im hoping to apply at pratt,parsons or chicago institute of art, I WOULD LOVE SOME INFO. really freaking out. totally suck at maths. cheers =)