orangetrousers

No, I just graduated from Guilford College. Your in Baltimore? I just went there this fall and love it and MICA for that matter.

MICA has sent out so many application confirmation emails that I thought for sure there had to be something special about that last email... I do appreciate them letting us know what is going on though. I was going through some of last years posts and Yale had sent out rejection letter today last year. For all of those who applied, we should hear something soon.

It's 1:44 am and I am nervously reading this forum wondering if others have heard back and I have not.. Ugh.. Nothing yet. I applied to: MFA painting for all Yale RISD MICA low residency and Hoffberger Tyler BU IUB www.orangetrousers.com

I love your work!

My stomach is in knots........................................... I am 28 and was told by many programs that they were looking for 25-35.. So I do not think we are to old.

I guess It depends on your work. When I put my work in chronological order it made sense to me in a way I had not seen before.

I wish I would have read this post sooner. I called Yale about this and they said that they have this rule for a reason and expect everyone to adhere to it. They even said they would prefer to know the months you finished the work.

I would love to have a place to talk about nerves and put news and stuff out there. Here I go! Oh boy! I am nervous. This was an intense and tedious process. I went into it thinking if I did not get into any of the schools I wanted, that I would apply again over the next three years. I am beginning to doubt that notion now. People keep asking me what is the school I want to go to the most and my most recent response is, "the one that accepts me"! I applied to: RISD MICA-Hoffberger and Low residency YALE Tyler IUB BU You can view my work at www.orangetrousers.com Excerpt from my artist statement: My urge to paint is as strong as my instinct toeat. I have used painting as a way tounderstand my relationship with food and its power over me. My paintings arecovert reconstructions of past experiences, acted out and painted on canvas,like plays, but the characters are fruits and vegetables and the settings areplates and cutting boards. I use seeds, skin and juices as correlations betweenhumans and plants to demonstrate narrative. Concepts such as beauty as bait,the botany of desire and astrophysics inspire my work. Similarities betweenfood structures and astrophysical formations reoccur in my compositions as wellas a fascination with the surface and sub-surface of objects. Icreate gigantic oozing imagery that embraces visual pleasure, but I embed itwith layers of personal, cultural, political, and scientific meaning. I see thetrait of beauty in food as a form of visual manipulation, like bait, pulling usin and making us want to eat its flesh. I strive to create imagery that canhave a poetic dialogue with a viewer over a lifetime, not just a complicatedmoment. In Open Sourced Fica; Portrait of Evelyn Nesbit, I used a fig and honeyto depict ejaculation on the outside of the vagina, which has become a popular andfetishised ending in current mass-media pornographic video. The fly adds alayer of narrative, referencing the lost story of Evelyn Nesbit, and shows thecyclical life of physical beauty as bait. The Fig, or La Fica, is a reoccurringsymbol of femininity and is portrayed as a vagina in the narrative of mypaintings. I amtorn between my loves for abstraction and realism. Scale allows me to embraceboth traditions. Up close, my marks are expressive and abstracted, but whenstanding further back my technique allows exploration of the observationalaspect of realism. I am interested in the large, dripping orifices in thedoughnut paintings by Emily Eveleth, massive realist portraits by Chuck Close,and satirical, master-influenced paintings by John Currin. All the while, in I’min love with Caravaggio, Matisse, Hans Hoffman, Vermeer, and Louise Bourgeois.

Mine said the same thing but I am not alarmed. I think that final application status page does not include the resume or statement. If you hear differently, please let me know.

I went to the open house last week and it seemed like Hoffberger was referring the artists working with collage and mixed media to apply with the Mount Royal School. Hoffberger focuses on artists working with in the tradition of painting.

They contacted me today as well. My review differed. I am really excited. I am going there this weekend for the open house.

I have not heard back. I hope to hear back soon. I wish they would have given us a date. I love Dutch still lifes. Thank you.

Writing has never been my strength but I did work on my statement for a long time. I did not discuss where I wanted to take my work in grad school either. Do you have pictures of your work that I can see? Did you have 20 pieces? I only had 14 but my work is gigantic, ranging from 5-9 feet wide. This is an intense experience. Please update when you get feed back. I wonder if they will send the feedback out as a group or individually.

The anticipation is killing me. I just received this. ----------Greeting from the Office of Graduate Admission at MICA. You recently requested an online portfolio review from our Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA) faculty. Due to a high volume of participation, Joan Waltemath, the program's director, has requested additional time to finish her responses. As a result, they will not be available today. We will be forwarding the feedback along to you as soon as the faculty make it available. Thank you again for your participation and your patience! Sincerely, Chris Harring MICA // Office of Graduate Admission

That is really interesting. For some reason I always imagined the applicant number would be much higher. Where did you get that information from?

I recently submitted work to MICA's slideroom for a preliminary portfolio review. I am so anxious and can not stop checking my email to see if they have responded. Anyone else heard back? If so, would you be interested in sharing on how they responded?

I uploaded my work to MICA's slideroom for an online portfolio review. I am still waiting to hear back.