The "Why" to Grad School Options

)This post is in response to Megane's question. There is no use in my writing all of this in a comment back to her.) This was just a rough list to get me thinking about graduate school, after reading some of the programs I'm not so sure if I would apply to them.

1) U.NO.--They have a Fine Arts in Photography and also have this amazing fellowship. New Orleans is such a rich city with so much culture. It's nothing like being in New York, I think I would find a lot of inspiration in the atmosphere. I would love to get away and make work in New Orleans. I first visited the city after Hurricane Katrina as a relief volunteer, I've always wanted to go back.

2) M.I.C.A -- M.I.C.A has a graduate program to Photographic and Electronic Media, its more driven towards digital photographic techniques rather than traditional. I still love film and wouldn't want to not have the freedom to work in that medium, so this is I don't know.

3)PRATT-- Honestly I doubt I'd apply to PRATT, the application fee is $100.

4) C.I.A-- I chose a school in California because my mother is a military veteran and I can go to any public school for free before the age of 26. I don't know if this accepts it, but I will find out soon enough!

5) U.O.A -- They have a really big diversity recruiting which would work in my favor be it my gender and race. I would be interested in the School of Art, they have a Photography program.

Seven Days in the Art World: The Studio Visit

• "Dealers are editors and conspirators. "

• "...but you could see the Murakami handbags through the window of the Louis Vuitton store, and African immigrants were selling copies on the street. Collectors were carrying real ones;tourists carried fake. Murakami had taken over."

• "...making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art, that is a fantasy!"

• ".... the names of the twenty-five people who worked on the piece are written on the back of the canvas. Other paintings credit up to thirty-five names."

• "A studio isn't just a place where artists make art but a platform for negotiation and a stage for performances."

Seven Days in the Art World: The Crit

• "MFA stands for yet another Mother-Fucking Artist"

• "I believe in education for its own sake, because it is deeply humanizing. It is being a fulfilled human being" "

• "Talent is a double-edged sword."

• "Crits can also be painful rituals that resemble cross-examinations in which artists are forced to rationalize their work and defend themselves from a flurry of half-baked opinions that leave them feeling torn apart."

• The work you do as an artist is... like when a two-year-old discovers how to make a tower out of blocks."