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    2010 MFA Visual Arts admission replies and results

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    Thanks so much for the input, thats very helpful. Most folks here at VSC seem to say its a no brainer: Cranbrook. I visit Monday, hopefully it will be obvious. They are two extremely different programs, but I feel either could suit me well. Why am I always so damned polarized? alwways one extreme or another and generally both.

    @lilnova: thanks also for having a an opinion, and for being such an active member of our little community. Ive enjoyed your posts throughout.

    PAFA just uped the ante, I pretty sure I being offered as much as theyve ever offered anyone. This is amazing. My advice to all: ASK FOR MORE MONEY!! Really cant hurt and it works! its a lot easier than I thought. every school Ive asked has increased their award and the programs I tried to decline have also come back with revised financial packages and asked me to reconsider. If anyone wants help in how to approach/word this stuff, I will be happy to fwd emails along, apparently Im doing ok at it.

    Anybody else? PAFA or Cranbrook for painting?

    I would love to see the emails you wrote! I am trying to decide between Pratt and Otis for MFA fine art. If anyone has any insight into either program, I would love to hear opinions. Otis gave me a 5k merit scholarship. Thanks everyone for the all of your wonderful posts!

    UCSD vs. CalArts? Full ride vs. Loans?

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    I think it depends on what kind of work you plan to make. I'm from San Diego and I work across the street from UCSD. One of my colleagues went there for her MFA, and I am familiar with cal arts because I looked into their program during my own app process. like grad wanna be said, if you are a painter, even a fairly conceptual one, I would go to Cal Arts, hands down. If you are new genre/ tech based, UCSD is a great program for you, and it would be worth it to be debt free.

    As for San Diego, one of the reasons I am leaving is that it is very conservative and the art world is VERY small. The gallery scene is almost non existent. I know Valencia is full of strip malls, but at least it is close to LA. To drive up to LA from SD in traffic is a major pain (it has taken me over 4 hours on several occasions), and the train is $60 dollars round trip. I think if your goal is to be connected to the art world, CalArts is a better place to do it not just because of its stellar reputation, but because of its close proximity to one of the biggest art centers in the world.

    Otis vs. Pratt

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    I've been accepted to Pratt and Otis for MFA fine arts. I'm an abstract painter who is interested in theory but am a "maker" and value the formal qualitites of painting. I loved both of the programs, although they are very different. Otis in SMALL and intimate. I got along with the faculty, and sat in on a grad crit.

    Pratt's campus is beautiful, and the prgram is much larger, so there will be many more viewpoints and opportunities for me to get to know different artists.

    Any insight to either of these programs will be a great help- Thank you!

    2010 MFA Visual Arts admission replies and results

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    I got my acceptance letter from Pratt today via snail mail for MFA fine arts (painting)

    Question to all: I also was accepted to Otis MFA and now I'm not sure which program is better.

    Otis prgram is SMALL and the studios are super nice, I loved the faculty I met.

    Pratt is a bigger program, more faculty to potentially work with- smaller studios -

    I'm an abstract painter who is looking for a mix between theory and practice. Any body want to put in thier $.02?

    Thank you guys! I love this forum!

    Would really appreciate feedback!

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    Hi,

    I know this process is super stressful and I am so sorry to hear that after so much hard work, you were rejected from the schools you wanted to attend. Waiting a few years out of my BFA not only made me a better artist, but my art changed and evolved dramatically in those years. (Graduated in 05' started working in museum ed, became a teacher, and kept painting the whole time)

    I think your work is technically very good- you are a very skilled painter. I think the reasons you were not accepted to schools is 1. You are straight out of undergrad 2. I hate to sound harsh but the content of your work is pretty one dimensional for an MFA. By that I mean that there aren't many layers of meaning- I get what you are doing right off the bat and it doesn't draw me in to want to know more. I also think that some of your paintings look like they were done in school as studies or assignments in a figure painting class. This will be an automatic no for a lot of schools if they see something that looks like it was made as an assignment. (At the west coast National Portfolio Day, I actually overheard several professors criticize a work by saying it looked like it was done in a class)

    I agree with stofo, your statement reiterates what I see in your work. I disagree, however that figure painting is out, I think it just has to be conceptually strong. Take a look at Jenny Saville, she blew up the london scene with her paintings in the 90s. My advise to you is go to a grad portfolio review next year if you can. Get some feedback, and keep painting! Your work will evolve and you will be glad you waited the extra year! Good luck to you! (and I hope I didn't come off too harsh- remember to keep painting!)

    2010 MFA Visual Arts admission replies and results

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    Just got the rejection email from UCLA. I applied in their interdisciplinary area. It was an email that forwarded me to their website. So the count so far is:

    SAIC Performance - Accepted

    UIC Moving Image - Accepted

    Columbia New Genres - Interview

    Yale Sculpture - Rejected

    UCLA Interdisciplinary - Rejected

    UCSD - Rejected

    SAIC Printmaking - Rejected

    RISD Sculpture - nada

    USC - zip

    CalArts - zilch

    Hi, Monkey_tacos, I'm sorry to hear about your email from UCLA. Did you apply to their MFA fine arts? just wanted to make sure we are talking about the same program. Best of luck to you!

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