[Jewelry making - Article 00461] - Re: [Orchid] BFA/MFA Vs technical training

[Dennis Loss]

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Dear Liz;

    Here is an answer to the rhetorical side. I don't think that you
    really get the chance to build up your creativity while in
    undergraduate school. It is necessary to take so many non art
    classes in school while an undergraduate that your studio time is not
    that great unless you spend all of your free time in the studio,
    [which I did]. Perhaps if you went to RISD or Cleveland school of the
    arts or somewhere similar you would have more built in studio time.
    BUT just because you spend all of your time in a studio doesn't
    necessarily help your creativity. You have to have instructors who
    are really interested in helping you develop your art. I loved my
    time in school, I had a scholarship so I was able to go. I didn't
    have the funds to allow me to go otherwise. So, for me college was a
    great experience, but I wish I had had the opportunities that money
    would have offered, like being able choose a better art school. I
    went to Univ of Ill. it was pretty good, great school really, but not
    an art school per say. The only time I ever see anyone's name that
    went to schools with me is if they are teaching somewhere.
    Undergraduate school has become a place for kids with money to spend
    4 or 5 years. It isn't going to help that much unless you go to a
    school that is really trying to help their students build a career.
    If you want to go to get a BFA check out the programs that really
    work at placing their students in the industry. Otherwise you are
    just preparing yourself to go to grad school to teach. I haven't had
    my express yet so I better go get it. I know I am sounding old and
    cranky. 

Good luck, 
Dennis
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