Non-Portfolio based art programs as a safety

uskoolfish
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:56:34 +0000

D wants to be an art teacher. She has a choice of going the BFA route with either an art education degree or a BFA in fine arts. In either case she will go on to graduate school in art education. The first option would allow her to teach straight out of school. Without the undergrad art education degree, she would need to get her master’s before teaching.

Admission to all the schools she is looking at are portfolio based (Pratt, NYU, FIT, SVA, SUNY New Paltz, Syracuse, etc.)

Are there any other liberal/arts or universities that offer good art programs for B=/A- students that are non-portfolio based? She needs a program that is strong enough to allow her to get in a master’s program in art education. Iwould like some schools like that as safeties just in case her portfolio isn’t strong enough or if she doesn’t want an art school environment.