eyeofoma

i'm currently in SMFA's grad program, and could really use some good old fashioned advice from all you wise art owls out there!! i decided to come here last fall having received a half tuition merit scholarship, and i have a lot of love for smfa's interdisciplinary program (i paint but also do animation, installation etc). i love the program's conceptual rigor and its free-for-all emphasis on exploration... however after a year in the program i'm having serious misgivings about whether it's the place for me to develop as a painter, given that so many of the students in my community are smitten with post-studio, relational aesthetics-type work. i am seriously missing having a good community of object makers around, and am thinking of reapplying to SAIC, where i had an interview last spring, and some other more painterly programs. however i'm really worried about risking all the good things i have going at SMFA, which includes some amazing faculty mentorships, TA-ing, not to mention it's a little easier on the old wallet. needless to say, i'm pretty torn and would LOVE some advice!! many thanks, i'm mighty grateful in advance!