From: sam tischler (altproc2001@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/17/01-11:30:54 AM Z
--- shannon stoney <sstoney@pdq.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --shannon
College of Santa Fe has an incredible program,they
have had residency teachers including Debie Fleming
Caffery and Sebastiao Salgado.Some of the teachers are
active artists, and they do alt proc.
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