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  1. Got my funding from MICA today. Max funding 50%....Yeah, baby!
  2. @nathancotephoto: @!#@#$%!#$ Wow!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats, Congrats, Congrats. You better go!!!!!!!
  3. I'm thinking the counter offer you make should probably be aid offered from a similarly ranked or esteemed institution. I can't see myself asking MICA for a full ride, because Maine College of Art offered it to me. But, if VCU had offered something hefty...I might have had more leverage. I probably would have said something like... I am really having a hard time deciding between two programs...Does your institution match offers, because unfortunately my decision may come down to funding. I was offered X... I'm curious to hear what other people have to say about this, too. I may find myself in a similar position.
  4. @Viewview: First alternate at MICA would be great!!!!!!!!!!! Crossing my fingers for you. We would be in the same program and I'd have someone to walk with me through Cracktown to get to our studios. lol... Best of luck. p.s. Does this mean there might be hope for my friend, too...? She never received a call from Zlata either. Also, where do you live? I never got my aid packet from MICA. They just went out on Friday, but...How did you hear the news that you were an alternate?
  5. Absolutely... and isn't it weird that the survey takes place in the D.C. area and MICA and VCU are both in the Top 5 ??? Just sayin'...lol.
  6. Kiddies, Let me share something... While I do believe the US News Rankings for Fine Art Grad Programs matter somewhat, this little methodology explanation might illuminate the way you look at this list. In summary, US News rankings are voted on by a committee. This committee is only comprised of other art educators. It would basically be like all of us taking a vote for who the best artist is on this board, with each of us having an equal amount of votes. In the case of the US News Rankings, only academic opinion is considered in the rankings. The obvious problem with this? In our field of Fine Art, many of the "academic" opinions expressed are from retired artists, non-practicing or irrelavent art educators who talk about making great art but, are not avidly showing. We cannot liken these ratings to those of academic disciplines, because our degrees only comprise a portion of what it takes to make it out there as an artist. Those that are getting their MFA to solely get a job teaching and contribute to art academia don't have to read any further.... But, if you are trying to have longevity in your art making career and an accomplished CV of showing your work at alot of great places, where are the OTHER voices that should be weighed in to rank an institution? Curators, Gallerists, Award Panelists---or I'd even settle for hard criteria like making each school on the top 10 produce solid examples of how their students are succeeding. (Getting fellowships, showing in cutting-edge exhibitions, being selected for prestigious opportunities to show outside of the country, etc.) Plus, they will always be 2 years behind. These 2009 rankings are based on surveys done in 2007. I just want people to know that the best way to select a school is to look at what alumni are doing, look at distinguished faculty and look at the curriculum/facilities to see if you would be a good fit. The days of saying..."I went to a #3 school in Painting"...won't really cut it anymore, especially as schools begin to offer more generalized studio degrees that allow for interdisciplinary study. I would go to the places you want to show and see where THEY are pulling grads from. I would look at careers you want to emulate and see where THEY went to school. I am so disheartened by this that I almost want to publish my own official list. lol...
  7. @kewpies: AWESOME! You wanted to be on the west coast, too...
  8. littlenova

    CCA or SFAI?

    My friend went to CCA for Design and LOVED it!
  9. @Heyoo: Congrats! I'll be going to the summer program...I am waiting to find out about my aid...They said between 30-50%...I'm dying to know!
  10. Hey Rolando! Thanks...They called me Feb 21st for an interview. Then, last week they invited me to campus and verbally accepted me on my birthday ---March 11. I got to choose between full-time photo or the summer interdisciplinary program (I applied to both)...and I chose summer. They have some new faculty from Bard and Columbia that are working in film and sound, so I am STOKED. Everything happens for a reason. Right?
  11. Last school reported for me today by email...VCU is a no-go. If you haven't heard from Photo by now, they did interviews already and made selections. Here's my final list in order of where I wanted to go: and MICA it is.
  12. All selections have been made at MICA already for all departments. They said they are calling candidates and Rolando is right...Letters will be mailed out on the 19th. I am waiting on aid now! They gave me a ballpark between 30-50% covered. I am happy with that! Let's hope for 50%! I have a question...I interviewed for MICA summer and was told there were 120 applications, they interviewed about 30 candidates and they chose 10. Better odds...I was accepted,but I don't know if my friend was. Do you think those 30 would be on a waiting list? Do all programs have waiting lists? She said her interview went bad...and I would LOVE her to get in, too.
  13. Thanks to those who continue to add to the conversation...This really feels like a critique! Fun... Without getting all into Burgin's postmodern views on the semiotics of image making, I believe most of his ideas challenged the way painting as an institution was this autonomous practice for so long. Revered...marketable but, not relatable to the masses. Where my opinion sort of diverges is his socialist conclusion that smothers the importance of an original point of view or a special mark. While it is true that visual culture is evolving in the way we disseminate ideas and observe work, I don't necessarily think it means that classic forms of artmaking like painting or drawing will ever be irrelevant. I also don't buy that one needs an art history background to be evoked by a painting. I found this to be true when I was looking at Hernan Bas's work recently. Here is this painter making statements about queer culture and I was literally fixated on the canvas and could not take my eyes away...Me...a female, heterosexual photographer who doesn't know the first thing about painting. He elevated his concerns, and for a moment, they became mine. The characteristics of the medium allowed for a certain measure of fantasy and manipulation that I don't think would have been possible in photography. I guess, bottom line...A great piece of art will speak no matter what...ya know? But, all good points... It really makes you think.
  14. Boooo! That's pretty frigan late. VCU seems to be on the same timetable for Photo. They are still doing interviews....lol. I just interviewed with them this week. Gooodness...They better step on it before they lose people.
  15. I would totally second the notion that painting is very much "alive"... Eric Fischl is a GREAT suggestion... just great. His compositions are stunning...they look like scenes from a movie!
  16. First off...grades, GRE scores and recommendations are pretty much only a small portion of the application process. It really is mostly about the work. My humble opinion...if we were sitting in a critique: I think some of your pastel observations are really beautiful...but, I think the work on your website read as assignments or studies. There is a bit of a conceptual vein that is missing. If your concern is about body image...I think continuing to study Steven Assael is great. Also, I would look at Jenny Saville. Entirely different style, but her contributions---the way she composes an image---are really significant to those kinds of ideas about how we see our bodies. (I actually think photographer Jen Davis is amazing as well...Julie Rrap...there are a bunch...) Ya know, maybe looking a bit deeper might help. Are there other ways to talk about size besides a tape measure? Are there other ways to talk about image besides a mirror? How do these concerns change when the figure is younger or older? Are her surroundings important? It's important to be aware of cliches and being too representational. This kind of research, solidifying an original point of view, editing your work...It all takes time. I think undergrad is a time to learn technique...develop craftsmanship. Now, grad school will be a time to define how YOU paint...What YOU have to say that's different. Does that make sense? I would continue painting, making, researching and showing alot more. The good news is...you are just out of undergrad----you have a long, happy career ahead of you. It's not like some of the folks I know that have applied after painting for years and they are being rejected. You have time to work on your portfolio! That's awesome!
  17. true, true. All true. My friend came out of the Columbia grad photo program and she told me to take MICA over Maine College of Art because more curators traffic their grad shows/events. She says "names open doors." I happened to love MICA anyway, but you are right...the connections are advantageous. But, I have to mention those wild cards like Tam Tran who got an undergad journalism degree from Univ of Memphis---never spent a minute in grad school---and now finds herself in the Whitney...at 23 no less. NUTS. It can happen...It is a very subjective thing sometimes. I think she's great, but I found her work lacking maturity. The Whitney likes to do that, though.
  18. @savantegarde: What was unfair about my post? I was simply explaining to Intelly that you cannot pass judgment on an entire institution based on a few "pompous hipsters", because Intelly is right...you'll find those everywhere. I,mostly, agree with what you said...except for... 1) Ratings alone do not a good program make. 2) If this is true...I have never heard of it. They seem to turn out some amazing talent. Didn't you get accepted there? I would go in a heartbeat. This is the first time I have heard anything negative to be honest.
  19. Bizarre. Just got accepted to MassArt and I totally asked them to withdraw my application for summer 2D...so they submitted it to Photo instead. Just got the phone call. I told them I can't move to Boston...but, they were really nice! Oh, well.
  20. Pompous hipsters are everywhere, though. Some of my favorite new artists like Carrie Schneider and Deb Sokolow hail from SAIC and they have insanely amazing guest lecturers like Angela Strassheim, David Sedaris, Yeondoo Jung...Maybe I have built it up in my mind like Yale...but, it can't be all bad. I also think it's important to look at someone's entire body of work over just a piece, because it might give more context to what they are doing. Jenny Holtzer made an entire career out of just using words...I mean, right? I can't really comment on the Location, Location, Location thing because I didn't see it, but... And your description reminds me more of programs like Bard. lol. I love the experimentation that goes on in a program like Bard, but the emperor has no clothes on most of the time---if you get what I'm saying. I felt that way when I lived in Miami...Basel would come to town and you wouldn't believe the SHITE that would get into the high-profile shows. I think my disdain for performance art might have something to do with the all the crappy one woman plays I was subjected to while I was there. [The things I had to endure just to be able to show one of my films...hahahaah] But, yeah...I dig.
  21. @gradwannabe & Jesteem: Niiiiice! Really amazing choices. Congrats!
  22. @mnchick: Oh, SAIC...Dream program. SO AMAZING!!!!!! I have friends that teach in that program...You would LOVE it. (That is of course if Yale is not an option...Let's not be crazy. lol.)
  23. Lists are great...But, if someone really did go about picking their schools based soley on that list,then that is kind of sad. There are some AMAZING programs that don't rank high at all on that list. I found Maine College of Art to be one of them. When I was in Ireland doing a curatorial study abroad, I met someone that used to teach there and it got me interested in the school. When I checked it out, I found it to be better and way more conceptual than most of the schools I researched in the mid-range (like disappointing Florida State, University of Florida, PAFA, Chapel Hill,etc.) yet they are ranked really low. Mills College is also a fine school ranked quite low. Here's something else weird...My husband did a portion of his undergrad at Cornell and while we lived on campus I checked out their art department, faculty, used their facilities. I thought it didn't even hold a candle to Syracuse Univ. And, of course, it obviously changes a bit with your discipline. There is some truth to the puffed reputations of places like SAIC, Yale or even MICA in the top ten...You can throw a coin and anywhere it landed, you'd find a solid department. That could be a huge benefit for someone working across disciplines. But, again...It is very personal. It really depends on YOUR work. I wouldn't be caught dead applying to MIT but, for folks working in new genres/electronic media---it is an incredible program. The schools I applied to were ranked #4, #5, #81 and #93 respectively. lol. I am probably going to #4, but #93 has got this amazing Bolivian filmmaker that really gets my work on so many levels....You would be surprised if you research a bit.
  24. @michaelwebster: OMG!!!!! SAIC is amazing. Congrats...Huge deal.
  25. @stofo: You said it...My photo professor at undergrad applied for the Guggenheim fellowship 9 years in a row before she won. She said she hoped I didn't get into my residency so that I could taste rejection---it's "good training"----she'd say. This is why grad school should be more than prepping for a career in teaching or defending a thesis...It REALLY IS about solidifying your point of view enough to be confident in your direction no matter the obstacles.
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