Eboni_Rain

Question: Is anyone having difficulties making work during this intense waiting game? My productivity has been transferred into checking my email every few minutes while in the studio... I think I need to start leaving my laptop at home

Awesome! Thanks! I was just about to give up hope

we are never too old... Unless you allow yourself to believe that. I'm 47, the work I submitted as my portfolio to grad school is ONE year old. I started from scratch @ 46 years old! I purged everything I did for almost 20 years and threw myself 105% into the new work, going for broke. I was prepared to deal with the possibility of it not working out at all. I got lucky, it worked out for the best. I love my new phase and the way I approach my art making. One day I want to make sure to inspire and enlighten students (saw many of them during my undergrad years) that expect their work to fall into place while in school or upon graduation. Every artist is different and as long as they believe that that's their calling, it's a matter of putting the time into the work and eventually things will start to click into place. Besides, isn't the journey "trying to get there" the more interesting part of the whole thing?

Accepted to Univ of Chicago! Much love to all of you this week...hoping many get good news as well.

I appreciated the question...and more importantly, I appreciated this question from a unique "insiders" perspective. Not many people on this forum are from Curious12345's perspective as a current grad student, who had the opportunity to view a selection of upcoming applicants work. I thought the purpose of his question was clear...and a thread of clarifying questions about the selection process appeared. Thank you Curious12345 for the original post. Personally, I had not heard any specifics about the UCSB MFA program.
I was also curious about the selection process and it was interesting to hear his feed back. Now...that said, it was not necessary to throw back the harsh language swearing and such. I understood that using the word "dismal" was not a direct reflection on the applicants who did apply (but then I did not apply to UCSB so perhaps i would feel differently had I applied) All and all, your perspective Curious12345 was interesting and your question, a learning opportunity for all of us not informed about your MFA program. Gathering and sharing information is the point of the forum.

Hello artists, I posted on here a while back but I've since added new paintings. Please share with me your comments and criticisms. Thank you!
http://waynemarcelli.blogspot.com/

website: www.toishatucker.com
facebook fanpage with some more recent work that i haven't loaded up to the website: toisha @ facebook

http://gondolagondola.com/

I love your work. You are amazing

Thanks OP, that's the most frustrating line ever. Especially if you hate it being just "somewhere" ore you are 80% sure you are getting into nowhere.


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