Someone (@stitcher) posted about this in last year's forum, and I thought these questions were super helpful even when trying to write my artist statement:
Interview questions:
*Why do you want to come here and how could you contribute to the program?
Tell us about the materials you are working with.
How do you incorporate your audience in your work?
What is risk in your medium?
*What are your passions besides your art?
Question related to artist statement
Tell us about your work informally
Talk about how your materials/medium relate to your subject matter
Have you ever considered expanding beyond your medium?
*Do you have questions for us?
How are you different than other artists?
Create a 3 item agenda for your interview.
How does your work fit in with the contemporary art world/scene?
*Why do you want to go to this school?
Why do you want to go to grad school? Why now?
What resources of this program will be the biggest benefit to your development as an artist?
*What is your work about?
What are your influences?
What for you constitutes a good work of art?
What draws you to a piece of work?
What motivates your work?
Who are your main influences?
*Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
What do you think is a good critique of your work/bad critique?
Why/how did you choose the people who wrote letters for you?
*What do you do for fun?
What artists do you like?
What artists who are no longer living influence you?
**What book are you reading right now? What do you think about it?
What are you working on right now?
*Please explain this work (interviewer showing work)
What is your favorite piece of art? Why? (Title, artist,year)
Can you describe yourself, such as personal habit, etc.
Do you get along well with others ?
What would you bring to a group dynamic ?
*What can you offer this program? Any special skills?
What do you think is a good way of critiquing ? a bad way?
What other aspects of culture influence your work besides art/art history?
*How do you see yourself taking advantage of this school’s enviroment/program?
What exhibition have you been to in the last year?
What have you done since you’ve graduated?
What contemporary artists are you into, and why?
Tell us about the conceptual underpinnings of your work?
Talk about your process.
How is your work related to *this movement*?
What do you think about (artist, movement, subject/topic)?
What can't you stand? Why?
What do you think about your own work?
How do you want your work to develop?
Why are you making the work you're making, and why do you want to keep doing it?
Meaning behind your subject matter?
Why grad school, why now?
Who is your artist nemesis?
Do you have any designer that you admire or a movement that you like?
Why did you choose our program?
Do you have any ideas what your thesis project would be about?
Why use arcane techniques in digital age?
charoarte got a reaction from qqqnnnaaa in MFA 2018 All Art ADMISSIONS freak-out forum!!!!!!!!