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He asked if I could send him my CV and artist statement as a word doc bc he was having trouble printing the PDFs I loaded to slideroom. Also about some recent teaching experience. I don't think it was meant to be an interview, although I had my game face on. The tone was more conversational really. He was pretty well versed in my statement of purpose, sometimes quoting it, talked about how the program works and what the teaching opportunities and facilities were like. Grad studios, etc. Good luck to you too! I'll pm you my site ~

Hi! I got a call from Bob Mueller at UF last week asking for some more info to present at a meeting they were having the next day. He said they are looking to admit 4 printmakers and there would be a "whole new batch" bc the one they have now is graduating and they didn't accept anyone last year! I haven't heard anything since. I think he must have called everyone of his hopefuls that night, but maybe you just provided enough info for him to roll with?

I just got off the phone with the printmaking chair at CCA and the one question he asked that this thread didn't prepare me for was "Why make prints when you can simply draw or paint." Luckily I had a few arguments about this during undergrad so I was able to get through it. It's pretty media specific and he was just playing devil's advocate, but I thought I would share. Otherwise yes, he asked if I applied to other programs (was able to get through by just saying how many), why this school over others, what the underpinning concepts of my work are, what artists I'm into, etc. I mostly got stumped bc I visited the school two years ago for SGCI and didn't remember if I met any faculty or what the demos were that I enjoyed ;s he was pretty cool about it though. The 'have questions prepared' advice was really good. I asked if recent alumni stayed in the area or ventured elsewhere, what the grad student to faculty ratio is, and I found a course that I wanted more information about in the curriculum that he happened to be teaching, so that really got him talking.