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Everything posted by SocialKonstruct
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I don't think that during this time that financial aid will be increased. In fact, many school turned down the whole class in order to keep their current students viable. So I wouldn't hope for huge money to help out with these programs during the COVID-19 era.
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Roski is rebuilding but sadly enough their prestige has dropped a lot and they haven't gotten their mojo back like during the late 1990's and early 2000's. UCLA and CalArts are pretty much the heavyweights in the LA area. Not much else honestly apart from Otis if you do paintings. But UCLA is pretty much the largest art MFA in terms of scope and cutting edge faculty.
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Good news! SVA just updated their class of 2022 listing here at http://mfafinearts.sva.edu/students Apparently the class size is smaller but still strong! Not every school is rejecting folks outright.
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I would base your decision on faculty in the dept.
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Indeed, there is a separate art education track for master's level if you want to teach. Studio art MFA's should be focused on being an artist first... teaching should be secondary or an adjunct.
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Just so you know as a former English major I will volunteer any time to proofread any artist/personal statements here. Just e-mail me at albertabdulbarrwang@gmail.com and I can provide feedback.
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I agree but sadly enough money rules everything around us :(. For me, since I am trying to enter the contemporary art world admittedly prestige of program is going to be the main deciding factor for me.
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Yeah... it's hard and honestly I am probably to lay down a ton of dough for my MFA in 2 years soon so not looking forward to that
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SAIC for fiber I gather is pretty awesome. We have a professor at Weber State named Cara Krebs and she seems to be having a blast after she graduated from there.
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I am the opposite route. I want the bustle and drama of a huge city either LA or NY. It would be funny if I got back into Yale again for a MFA (I already got a MPH from there). I don't think it's impossible as one of our U of U graduates got into the sculpture dept. However their photography dept could be much harder to get in...
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Here is a cool video about MFA's.
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Hmm... I would try to hunt down New Genres places like Columbia, etc.
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Silverbuttons you don't need to worry. A long CV does not matter much. Even Yale is focused on fit and whether they can have a diverse range of students. If you are rejected most likely the program has too many of one type of student.
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Wow, that's news to me about UCLA
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I am not since I have 21 credit hours and I won't be applying for another 1.5 years.
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My main focus is mostly studio practice and gallery sales/career and then be an adjunct faculty/workshop teacher. I would say 80% gallery/20% academic career. I suspect that going to a top-tier MFA school is going to be the direction here.
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I can help out... do you have an art website I can look at?
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The question I have is: Can I do both a gallery and academic career? I REALLY want to! I love teaching.
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I have been keeping up with this thread. I am currently a 2nd year undergraduate photography BFA student and I am grateful to have a future minor in art history. I feel based on what has been going on with the MA track here at my university that being a graduate level art history student is a labor of love. I am the only Muslim, Asian-American heterosexual male who is taking upper level art history courses and having taken numerous undergraduate courses in art history is an immense amount of work and for me to be motivated to get a minor in the field, I have to remind myself that it's a labor of love. I look at the museum jobs even locally here in Utah and those are rather slim and in fact, many folks do not have a Ph.D. in art history to hold key positions in the institution. I love art history but already I realize that one of my favorite artists Cady Noland doesn't even have a monograph of her work available and there are very few articles about her installations. At this point, I am glad that I am a visual artist and that art history can help me refine my visual language. But the art history students even at a non top tier school are challenged by a bleak future. On the other hand, our art history department is hiring a young new professor who specializes in Islamic art so I am celebrating. I expect her to be permanent here as there are very few jobs in the field but no one knows at this point.
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University of Utah philosophy department is 90% focused on the philosophy of science, such as physics.
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Nice. Btw, I am originally from Brooklyn. In any case, my goal is to be entering into the NYC/LA contemporary art scene so I plan someday to have my art studio/second home close to one of those two cities. I really enjoy living in Utah and hope to have a family someday but on a practical level, my type of conceptual art doesn't jive at all with where I live at. Yale is just tough to enter and they want a variety of students in their program and not just artists who have thick resumes. Columbia and UCLA and and SAIC and RISD and Yale are pretty much in the kingmakers if you want to be recognized in the contemporary art world (we are talking about gallery representation and nods in Art in America, ArtNews, and ArtForum if you are lucky... plus art fairs). However if you want to have a quiet less hectic art practice, then pretty much any MFA where you find a kindred professor and student body is important so anywhere would be fine in that case.
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I think that they made exceptions only for this year. They won't allow this in any other typical year.
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I am glad that you were able to state how nice UCLA is. I have a friend attending CalArts right now. Luckily I just finished my summer art residency at SVA and I look forward to doing more artwork before I apply in the fall of 2022 ish for 2023 entry.
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UCLA is super competitive and in many ways more difficult than Yale to get into... they have the least amount of information on their website but much of it is due to their focus on not making waves and focusing on making their students top notch. Yale's programs are going to be much more visible as their website is pretty detailed.