Some notes on the "best" schools for fine art

drae27
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:15:10 +0000

kaelyn,

You kind of got me going. I looked up a few more contemporary artists and what I found is that if you really look, there are many paths to an art career. Some, like Rirkrit Tiravanija and Chris Johanson don’t even have a formal degree. Terence Koh went to Emily Carr in Vancouver, Nari Ward to CUNY Hunter. For the ones who have followed a more traditional educational path you will often see that they pursued an MFA.

Here’s a few more for fun just to show the wide variety of backgrounds:

San Diego State U. - Andrea Zittell
Temple U. - Karen Kilimnik
Cal Arts - Anne Collier
University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Jessica Stockholder
CCA - Chris Duncan
Scripps - Pae White
Cal State Fullerton - Fred Tomaselli
Oberlin - Ellen Gallagher

Don’t know why my list has so many women. It’s just who came to mind when I started looking.

For all of you hopeful artists out there don’t forget about the Whitney Studio Program which you can do after you get your degree/s:
[url=http://www.whitney.org/Research/ISP/StudioProgram]Whitney Museum of American Art: Independent Study Program/url