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Hey folks! I am a 1st year MFA student here at ArtCenter and definitely I can walk any of you through the whole process :D. This is an example of my 1st show for crit I did last month- https://www.artcentermfa.net/exhibitions/exhibition/albert-wang Feel free to ask away (doing my 2nd solo and 1st group shows as we speak)... peace

I am moving to Pasadena tomorrow to head off for ArtCenter's MFA program (studio art). Very excited!

Checking to see if anyone else here is heading to ArtCenter?

I selected ArtCenter. Anyone else going there this fall?

So quiet this past week here...

I never include detail shots. The committee I don't think have time to look at the works in that amount of detail usually.

Okay correction: it was a half-tuition scholarship but still better than that of SAIC. Word.

Heard back from the ArtCenter financial aid office and it's a done deal. Got I think a pretty much full ride tuition and then some. Will take out 21k/year loans for food, housing, and misc. expenses. The journey is over and hope to see other ArtCenter folks this fall! Cheerios. MFA PROGRAM Fall 2023 CONCENTRATION STATUS Yale University Sculpture Rejected Yale University Painting and Printmaking Rejected UCLA New Genres Rejected Columbia University Printmaking Rejected School of the Art Institute of Chicago Painting/Drawing Rejected School of the Art Institute of Chicago Photography Accepted School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sculpture Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Art (Integrated Media) Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Art + Technology (Integrated Media) Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Photography and Media (Integrated Media) Rejected ArtCenter College of Design Art Accepted and will commit

This week hoping to hear back from ArtCenter financial aid office. And more snow in Utah...

ArtCenter is looking to be more likely at this point

Got my final rejection... from Calarts. Here is the final tally. MFA PROGRAM Fall 2023 CONCENTRATION STATUS Yale University Sculpture Rejected Yale University Painting and Printmaking Rejected UCLA New Genres Rejected Columbia University Printmaking Rejected School of the Art Institute of Chicago Painting/Drawing Rejected School of the Art Institute of Chicago Photography Accepted School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sculpture Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Art (Integrated Media) Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Art + Technology (Integrated Media) Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Photography and Media (Integrated Media) Rejected ArtCenter College of Design Art Accepted

Still awaiting financial aid results from ArtCenter and hopefully I can hear back soon. Calarts probably next week? No decision yet.

I don't quite agree as I have lived here in the Frankfort Market area and commuted to work at Market Street for years. The crime and homicides were pretty bad when I was there from 1997 until 2004 and had gotten worse by the time I left to Salt Lake City. My older friend got accosted and nearly assaulted on SEPTA one afternoon. Even City Center was pretty desolate and bad. If one attends Temple I would recommend avoiding Kensington and North Philly. I think Northern Liberties was all right but walking around downtown was not particularly good to me by myself late nights. Even South Street has gotten a lot worse. I do like ICA on U Penn campus and the Museum but the only safe area I felt was probably around the Rittenhouse Sqaure area.

Okay... still awaiting CalArts decision.

My strategy is simple. For talking about scholarships (merit usually) I would try to speak with the department. For grants and loans, financial aid office for that round.

I usually would argue based on the FAFSA but if you can, the department could help out. For example, with SAIC, I was unable to obtain more funding so I gave up. I even submitted an online appeal and it does not work for me. So will see how the other two schools fall out.

Philly is pretty dangerous to live in. Almost got shot once and stabbed once there. Tyler is dope for fiber. I think Erin M. Riley went there and wow yes! Amy Lincoln went there too. So a very good school.

Calarts it looks like it's going to be early April this year for that. I am in the same boat.

Officially rejected from Columbia this morning.

Updated for today: MFA PROGRAM Fall 2023 CONCENTRATION STATUS Yale University Sculpture Rejected Yale University Painting and Printmaking Rejected UCLA New Genres Rejected Columbia University Printmaking Rejected? (Assumed) School of the Art Institute of Chicago Painting/Drawing Rejected School of the Art Institute of Chicago Photography Accepted School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sculpture Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Art (Integrated Media) Rejected Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Art + Technology (Integrated Media) Interviewed Calarts (California Institute of the Arts) Photography and Media (Integrated Media) Rejected ArtCenter College of Design Art Accepted

We should be able to find out within a week or so when we can log into the ArtCenter portal.

Just got into ArtCenter MFA program!

Still awaiting two more decisions and finalizing at some point. Hope to finish this ordeal by next week. Or so.

I am probably not the right person to ask but I read a lot and it tends to be a lot of dense critical theory. Things like bell hooks all the way to Deleuze and theoretical texts in art criticism. For fun I have been reading Robert Coover's The Public Burning if that tells you anything Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Beacon, 1994. Barthes, Roland. Image-Music-Text. Hill And Wang, 1977. ---- Mythologies. Noonday Press, 1973. Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Schocken, 1969. Beshty, Walead. 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters: Selected Writings (2003-2015). JRP|Ringier, 2015. Davis, Ben. 9.5 Theses on Art and Class. Haymarket Books. 2013. Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. Minnesota University Press, 1987. Dewey, John. Art as Experience. TarcherPerigee, 2005. Derrida, Jaques. Of Gramatology. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976 Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. 1967 Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. Vintage, 1970. Harrison, Charles; Paul Wood, eds., Art in Theory 1900-1999, Blackwell Publishers Lister, Martin et al. New Media: A Critical Introduction (2nd Edition). Routledge, 2009. McLuhan, Marshal. The Medium is the Message. Random House, 1967. Seltz, Peter; Kristine Stiles, eds., Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art : A Source Book of Artists’ Writings. U. of California Press. Steyerl, Hito. The Wretched of the Screen. E-flux, 2013. Wallis, Brian, ed. Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, MIT Press, 1987. ---- ed. Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. New Museum, 1984. Zizek, Slavoj. The Plague of Fantasies, Verso Books, 1997. Maybe you are looking for https://static1.squarespace.com/static/573e2957ab48dee8fdd6ba82/t/5c9be01aeef1a19bd7bcc41a/1553719322652/RISD+Photo+Grad+Reading+List.pdf ?

Nope. Same boat and they said a few weeks out. In the same category.