[Jewelry making - Article 00309] - Re: [Orchid] What do you want from an MFA program?

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Goo:

    I can't speak for all art programs, but most of the good ones have
    what they call 'foundation year'. 

    The theoretical idea is to make sure all the art majors have a solid
    grounding in the foundations of 2D & 3D design, as well as art
    history and basic written english. That's the theory. The real point
    is to weed out the kids who think art's an easy ride. I remember
    showing up to a mass assembly of all the freshmen art- majors and
    having a couple of the art-history professors do the classic 'look at
    the people on either side of you...' speech. The *stated* goal was a
    33% flunk or transfer rate for freshman year. They met it. They
    whittled the class down to much less than half by four years. Not all
    of these folks flunked out, many transfered to easier majors. (This
    was Syracuse's BFA program in 88-92) I don't think I went to bed
    before 2AM any night that year, and I remember threatening to choke
    the next PoliSci major who complained about how much work they were
    doing...on the way to bed at midnight... 

    No, the good programs aren't easy, and some of them make no bones
    about it. 

    (SU's program seemed to delight in making the foundation year
    harder, just because they could.) 

    The art majors who won't think don't last long. 

Cheers-
Brian Meek, BFA, MFA.
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