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bekzilla82

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    Horror in all its intangible forms
  • Application Season
    2017 Fall
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    MFA in Visual Arts/Painting

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  1. What type of MFA? It's really going to depend on the school, but generally I'd say most faculty don't want to read an overly formal personal essay. If you can do conversational, but still have it written well, I believe that would go over well pretty much anywhere. Some MFA programs barely put any emphasis on the essays anyway, preferring to weigh the majority of your application on the portfolio, artist statement, and letter of rec- as is the case with UCB (where I'm applying).
  2. From what I can tell, having a couple of detail shots is totally fine, so long as there's an actual reason for them (like with a complex sculpture or a large installation). Seems to me that in that case, 5 is a totally acceptable number.
  3. This will be my 2nd year in a row applying to UC Berkeley, and I am indeed freaking out. Kind of already got accepted to another program, but there's a prof I really want to work with at UCB, ergo round 2. So I don't know if any of you have had this "problem," but I've only shown my art locally and don't have any artist grants or the like under my belt. And I'm not from NY. I've also never had a solo show, but it's largely because I've chosen to curate instead. I'm curious how big a problem all this is. It seems to me that the hardest part about this process is that we already know that it's all about the portfolio and artist statement, but if everyone's portfolio and statement are fantastic, then what?? Perhaps I'm overthinking it, but that's what this forum is for, right?
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