and so it begins...

[missjenmarie]

My name's JenMarie and I'm going into my 5th year/BFA candidate at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where I will be attaining a BFA in Painting in May of 2009. This is a really crucial point in my life and career! I need to be thinking about the work I'm making, as I approach my BFA thesis. Also in the process, is.....dun dun dun...grad school. I

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carnegie mellon + VCU

[vintage_purl]

hey guys i just wanted to say that I am looking heavily at CMU but not for the reasons that you all mentioned already. . .i have several friends who went through the BFA program and they are so cool, i heard all about their mfa program and even met with a faculty member there and the work their faculty are doing is just real open-ended, i mean they have a little bit of everything there. Yes, the robots, but also they have great facilities for metal fabrication (for the robots! and other cool stuff like laser cutting which you can do with printmaking,etching etc and paper sculpture), awesome printmaking facilities, video and computer labs, and you can assist faculty as a graduate assistant. I like the fact there are three years in the program, the program is really small and hard to get into so I am crossing my fingers, I was told they take 6 people every year and they have like over 200 or 300 applicants. . .check out their faculty work and past graduate students websites, it looks like their mfa grads are getting tons of shows all over the country and world. . .and their visiting artists are to die for.
I don't think their grads are dorkbots. . .the campus seems really happening when i visited there, lots of student artist activity.
I really like pittsburgh, too. It's cold but there are so many great resources there and lots of young artists making the scene happen.

I am also applying to VCU for painting, and maybe MICA and Yale cos I wanna stay on the east coast.
hope this info helps!