saic (?)

well i am almost fully convinced that i did not make it to the interview at saic this year. i think it confirms what many have told me over the past year or so that the mfa application acceptance process is truly a crapshoot. i made it to the saic interview a year ago not really knowing what the hell i was doing. in my eyes, half my portfolio was weak and i was coming straight from undergraduate school. i think it proves that you really do not know what to expect - or at least that my portfolio this year around is not as strong as i thought it was.

i have not officially heard from saic yet, but i do know that their interviews are the same weekend as the one i have in boston. it only makes sense that they would have let me known by now. we shall see i guess. i wont be hearing from RISD, cornell, or ucla for at least another month, but i am working on putting together some interviews for current and recently graduated mfa students to post on the blog.

until then?

yale

Got a nice looking letter in the mail today with a rejection in it. Sorta bummed, but its one of those situations where you know the program isn't right for you, but its the holy grail of programs nonetheless.

Should be hearing from Chicago within a week or two and then its another month until the three other schools that do not have interviews.

We shall see!

SMFA

I received an email a couple of days ago letting me know that I have advanced to the interview stage at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I am pretty excited about it and am looking forward of getting a good look at both the school and city.

check out this show

Lisa is a good friend of mine and an excellent photo-based artist who is a first year MFA student at USC.

introductions

Hey

My name is Erik and I am a 23 year old emerging artist that has applied to several MFA programs for the fall of 2009.

I started this blog to share my soon-to-be relationship with the MFA degree (if I end up getting in to a program that is).

There are lots of MFA related goodies out there in the blogosphere, but I have yet to find one that is sorta like a diary of a current MFA student. Not that I am one yet, but I figured post-app is a good place to start...

This year I applied to six schools:

UCLA, The School of the Art Institute Chicago, RISD, Cornell, Yale, and the School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston.

I'll keep you updated.