Though I'm no longer awaiting responses (applied to Northwestern, Princeton and Yale/Accepted by Northwestern and Yale, Rejected by Princeton), the anxiety is still there. Now, I'm worried about making the wrong choice or looking like an idiot in front of my future professors and cohort...oh well. I am leaning toward Yale.
I will be entering grad school directly from undergrad and my focus is Contemporary American and African-American art. I'm very interested in visual humor and I want to look at contemporary permutations of the blackface minstrel figure in the works of African-American artists. I love Ellen Gallagher's work; she is probably my favorite at the moment. I am also moved by Carrie Mae Weems, Chakaia Booker, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden.