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When you find out, let me know? I'm sort of in the same boat, southern school included.

Fullofpink, I'm totally ok with going to someplace like Utah or Virginia. I am a wanderer at heart so being able to lay my head in an unexperienced city sounds awesome to me. I sort of want to go back to New York for a couple of years to be with the person i've been seeing and to play auntie to all my friends's kids, Its not my end-all-be-all like it used to but I miss living there. I've been talking with my advisor at WKU who suggests focusing on something like the Arts and Crafts movement in order to broaden my horizons. I'll take a gander at AAM to keep an eye out. I guess with the idea of an MA, I wonder if having a second MA in just Art History would either strengthen my chances of getting a job at a smaller museum or hurt them. I'm sorry if i'm sounding like a neurotic looney. I was a lot more confident about how I was going about the grad path until everyone and their momma decided that they had something to say about how to be a folk art curator. That and the lady at the folk art museum in NYC just reaming out with all kinds of disheartening facts about how educated I have to be in order to ride the rollercoaster.

I'm a big film geek, my original plans was to work in film before I made the change to Folk Art, and I'm trying to get into running and knitting. What's the bookstore situation like out there? I know about Prometheus books in Nashville but that's all I know. Also, I'm a recovering hipster, lived all over Brooklyn in my old life, and I still pine for that indie, scuzzy, jackassery that I both loved and hated to death. I heard in Nashville, I could get my hipster fix pretty easily but are there cool little hole-in-the-walls in BG that are worth checking out. I'm sorry if i'm being super-vague. The concerts sound awesome and I'm trying to head down there in late July to get moved in so I'll prick up my ears for that. Thank you!

Fullofpink, Where did they advertised the Outsider art curator jobs? Mitleachim, I'm hoping that I may only have to get an M.A. but the person at the Folk Art Museum in NYC i've been emailing with has been telling me that the Ph.D is basically becoming a standard part of a future curator's resume which is making me feel hopeless and crazy. I think I may have an Decorative Arts internship thanks to a former professor next summer at the Indiana Museum of Art which might help me in the long run but I've been researching other internships, fellowships, all those ships with a few name-brand museums. How is the writing different out of curiosity? I've written academic papers before and the like but is there something I need to watch out for in the Art History field? Thank you for answering my neurotic questions, I highly appreciate it.

Hi guys, I'm in the process of changing my career goals from writing to art history. I want to be an outsider art/folk art curator now after working on a musical about Henry Darger. I'm about to enter Western Kentucky's Folk Studies grad program but I feel that if I want to go farther, I need to get a Ph.D. My dream three programs are UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia or NYU but I feel that in order to be even considered for those programs, I need to get another masters that just focuses on Art History. Do to crazy nature of my B.A. I never got the chance to take an Art History class, so I'm worried that I may not get into an Art History program. I'm willing to pull some crazy stunts to look as good as possible but if anyone has any suggestions about how to improve my chances at getting into a top program, I'm all ears.

Hi, I'm about to move to Bowling Green, KY to start a Folk Studies program at WKU. First time in the south and also will be sans car for the first year but will happily travel around by bus. Looking for cool stuff to check out in the area.

Hi guys, I've been accepted into Western Kentucky University's Folk Studies program to study Folk Art. My goal is to get a Ph. D in Art History at some point. I don't have much in the way of an Art History background, went to school for TV production and never had time to take an Art History class. I'm loading up on AH-related classes at WKU to go along with my Folk classes but I'm wondering if I should either try to go for the Ph.D straight away or get a secondary Master's degree that is exclusively related to Art History just to be able to pair it with the Folk Studies degree. I'm looking to specialize in the Arts and Crafts movement.