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Angelicpup In reply to Valognir [2020-07-16 01:23:44 +0000 UTC]

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Valognir In reply to Angelicpup [2020-07-16 10:02:06 +0000 UTC]

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Angelicpup In reply to Valognir [2020-07-16 13:59:27 +0000 UTC]

I believe in my last year people got permission to put out a little bit more of a permanent art display, but I don’t think they’d allow a student to maintain a garden even if you asked. My old school didn’t really like students doing anything, we weren’t even allowed to put up a poster in the hall for any reason unless we went through the process of applying for permission. And when it came to hosting events on short notice (a week or two before the date) you were just kinda screwed and couldn’t advertise. I was in charge of planning the posters for an art show (the image is actually in my gallery somewhere) and was told to take an afternoon to put them up but was told my professor didn’t go through the permission process. I wasted my whole lunch putting them up, they were torn down in an hour. I was so upset at my professor. My school wasn’t much fun. Very clinical. That’s why in 2019 there was a schoolwide protest that made the news, ha. For all the money they make, they weren’t paying professors fair wage in our department. They like to pretend they’re a fun school by throwing parties, mainly during pride month, but nah, not really.
Another funny thing, they used the art department for all their needs but never paid us. I was selected out of a few artists to be the artwork on their holiday mailing cards. I was not paid for it, was currently paying $2200 in tuition. Participation was mandatory, the class I was taking made it an assignment. Same thing for their spring art show, except I didn’t go through the selection process that year due to the pandemic.

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Valognir In reply to Angelicpup [2020-07-16 17:59:03 +0000 UTC]

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Angelicpup In reply to Valognir [2020-07-16 18:13:20 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it was a similar selection process. But we weren’t given the “clientele” experience from it. They made it more like a contest. Y’know, a contest to win nothing. My professors were a joy though. A lot of us built friendships with them given enough time. You could usually tell who’d been in the department for a long time by the way they spoke with the professors. I even allowed some of my works to my favorite professors to help teach the later generations. Copies, though, because they often wanted my best work. They made the whole experience bearable.

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Valognir In reply to Angelicpup [2020-07-16 18:18:10 +0000 UTC]

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Angelicpup In reply to Valognir [2020-07-16 18:30:08 +0000 UTC]

Indeed, but they always prided themselves in being there for people who needed them. Their program was one of the best of its kind, and the professor I learned painting from was a published and well known painter. A few of them teach at much more renowned schools like Drexel as well. They say the school was good behind closed doors and took offense to people saying things I have, but the school has never proved to me to be otherwise. They’ve screwed me over quite a few times, personally.

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