<p>MassArt has available 5 full ride scholarships for in-state students and 6 full ride scholarships for out of state students. These are offered each year. They appear to be based on a number of things including income, gpa and stats and portfolio so they are not just merit based.</p>
<p>Also I remember the Dean of Students (I’m pretty sure he was the Dean, my memory is a bit faulty) saying that he was from a working class family (local) attended MassArt and was the first in his family to graduate college. As I remember he worked in graphics for some time and then came back to MassArt to work. He seemed like a really great guy.</p>
<p>And for those who don’t know about MassArt they offer an incredibly good deal to in-state students without the scholarship, a very enticing reduction to New England students. How does your son like the sculpture department? Has it been a good experience? And I’m curious as to how he felt about foundation year.</p>
<p>artsmarts: My son loves his instructors at MassArt and feels his art has really matured and developed there. He’s had a great experience in the sculpture department. In fact, he says he can’t imagine another school would have provided a better experience. He felt that there could have been more options offered in the required classes foundation year, but said that now they have changed the program and there are many more options that line up better with the various majors. All in all, he is very happy he chose MassArt.</p>
<p>Bears - don’t when his parents knew, maybe in the coloring stage. Link was interesting - will show hubby. He also has trouble with blue and purple.</p>
<p>More on the color blindness bit (This is Redbugs D) My classmate/friend is colorblind (One of the rare females) and it all depends on the job you want. Comic inking (My school is one of three with a comics major, and all the students are beautifully successful in the program, I will be taking the intro this coming semester) is almost always black and white, so it usually wouldn’t be a problem. Same with pencil work. I don’t know what strand she has, but she does this gorgeous pen work, the details alone are enough to give me carpal tunnel from seeing it:</p>
<p>All of her drawings are WAY smaller than they look, many are done in an 8.5 x 12 sketchbook. When you see them, you can’t believe they’re really that small, my first introduction to her work resulted in me going ‘Did you print these out smaller…?’ ‘Those are the originals.’ ‘HOWHOWHOWHOW.’ She’s quite afraid of color due to her eyes, and will sometimes work with one color, if any (Usually a crayon color such as ‘Red’ or a ‘yellow’ to know what she’s kind of working with) in addition to her ink. <a href=“http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/2521/digitalizar0011lc1.jpg[/url]”>http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/2521/digitalizar0011lc1.jpg</a></p>
<p>Regardless, she gets much attention over it, and her work is gorgeous enough to guarantee her a job. Same could be said with pencil artists, you don’t always NEED color, and often times color isn’t even done by the same person. My friend did a movie poster for a company, and her work was worth someone else doing color for her.</p>
<p>oh neat!!
you mean she got paying job illustrating for legit company as a freshman?
don’t tell taxguy that!!!
I can see it gave some different kind of aptitude for lack of the way with colors, like people who is blind can hear more, or feel more? to balance things out. like the gallery guy who can tell shades in blacks at one glance.
MCAD supposedly has really good printmaking facilities. she should try.</p>
<p>For all the work these schools do with foundation year and the worry about being colorblind or this or that, it’s really all about the end result, the final piece isn’t it? My own personal worry about these schools is that they are so focused on teaching a certain approach that the works will lose any sense of individuality. These are wonderful drawings, I see a great possibility for an illustrative career.
I know of two artists who have no sight in one eye, one a photographer, one a painter, both have had successful careers.</p>
<p>She just finished her freshman year with me, and I do believe she will be taking print making!</p>
<p>Artsmarts: I agree, a disability or anything like that should never hold anyone back from what they want to do. They may have to work with their problem (I had to teach myself to naturally hold my head a certain way to compensate for my bad eye), but in the end, it is the end result that counts. I know of an artist with all sorts of vision problems and her work is gorgeous!</p>
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