Re: graduate schools in photography; artists in academia

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Trickstrr@aol.com
Date: 10/17/01-11:04:07 AM Z


I am not necessarily answering your question but in regards to this is there
any school that provide minors as well in art?

--Jeremiah

>I am thinking of applying to an MFA program in photography this
>winter, and I wonder if anybody on this list has any suggestions
>about where to apply. I am going to apply to some schools in Texas,
>but I am open to suggestions about other places, particularly schools
>where people are doing some alt-process work. At present at U of H I
>am the only one doing this; the emphasis in our program is on big
>color prints.
>
>I am also wondering about what I want to do long-term. It seems that
>some of the teachers in our dept at U of H are not flourishing as
>artists in academia. We never see any of their work, and I think
>maybe some of them have not produced much since their MFA show. They
>seem stuck in whatever art school ideology was prevalent when they
>were graduate students and haven't moved much beyond that. They
>don't seem to read much about contemporary art. They also seem
>sometimes threatened by their own students' creativity and a bit
>envious of it. If this is what happens to you when you get a job
>teaching at the college level, I don't want it! But surely it's not
>necessary to become a fossil. I know some people on this list teach
>art, and I wonder what your experience is about this.
>


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