Art Colleges in the Northeast? Maybe a long shot but do you have any recommendations

[wishesuponastar]

My daughter is a sophomore in HS and we would want to take her to college tours this year. If you have any colleges in our area for Art Degrees, we would appreciate your help.

She did find only one so far, Lyme School of Art in Connecticut.

 

[mickman1962]

Slippery Rock in PA

 

[wilkeliza]

I went to Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. They have a great art department (I went for theater but took a ton of art classes). Being in NYC has its perks when you are studying art but it the experience comes for a price. One thing I appreciated was almost all the teachers were either currently still showing their work or had written books on their subjects. It was nice having professors who were still actively involved in their fields who were teaching. It really helped with getting internships and stuff too.

 

[mefordis]

Rhode Island School of Design

 

[wishesuponastar]

Thank you both. My daughter is not interested in teaching Art, she wants to sell her Art in a gallery. Yeah, I think she might become a starving artist.

 

[wilkeliza]

Thank you both. My daughter is not interested in teaching Art, she wants to sell her Art in a gallery. Yeah, I think she might become a starving artist.

The college I suggested isn't just for people who want to teach art. She can get a degree in art and then choose a concentration. They have studio art, photography and graphic design as concentration options. Here's the website for what degree she'd probably be interested in http://www.mmm.edu/departments/art/studio-art.php

Now as someone who went to school for something similar (Theatrical Lighting Design) I would strongly encourage that she minor in something like finance, business, etc just so she doesn't have to be a starving artist. It gives you some freedom to take an office job while you make art at night or you just make art and never use the minor.

 

[wishesuponastar]

Thank you wilkeliza for saying what you did about a minor. I will bring that up with her. I have to look at the cost of Marymount to see if it's in our range, which would be about $30,000 year all in.

 

[debster812]

Mass College of Art?

http://www.massart.edu/node/286

This link should take you to their programs of study/majors

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

RISD. If she is going to major in art, I'd try to go somewhere as reputable as possible to maximize networking and opportunities so she has the best chance possible.

http://www.risd.edu/

 

[wilkeliza]

Thank you wilkeliza for saying what you did about a minor. I will bring that up with her. I have to look at the cost of Marymount to see if it's in our range, which would be about $30,000 year all in.

Let me know if you have any questions. I really enjoyed my time at Marymount and even though it isn't a traditional college in the sense of a quad and greek life and stuff my 4 years there really shaped me as a person and an artist.

 

[dina444444]

Thank you wilkeliza for saying what you did about a minor. I will bring that up with her. I have to look at the cost of Marymount to see if it's in our range, which would be about $30,000 year all in.

I went to MMC as well. When I was there it was about $36k/year all in. It was less than the school I was at prior to it, Drew University, which was about $50k/year all in. Drew also has a good art program and at the time I went there they gave out generous scholarships to most of their accepted students.

 

[FINFAN]

Pratt is another...I also vote RISD but IF she happens to consider other areas, Ringling College of Art and Design/Fine Arts..East, but Southeast. Sarasota, FL.

 

[AppleDumpling]

The big ones in NYC are Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design. All are specialized art schools with excellent reputations. Parsons and SVA are in Manhattan, and Pratt is in Brooklyn.

There's also a renowned art program at Cooper Union, but it's extremely hard to get into. Also, FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), which is mostly known for fashion but also has fine arts and other design majors and is part of SUNY, so lower tuition than private schools.

 

[HeatherC]

UMASS Dartmouth has a college of Visual and Performing Arts

 

[Gorechick]

University of the Arts in Philadelphia. My ex-brother in law got a degree in sculpture there.

 

[wishesuponastar]

University of the Arts in Philadelphia. My ex-brother in law got a degree in sculpture there.

I did find that college in my google search. thank you everyone for your replies.

 

[wishesuponastar]

To those of you who have an Art degree or know a person with an Art degree, have you found it easy to get employed using that degree? What kind of jobs in Art did you get?

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Mass College of Art?

http://www.massart.edu/node/286

This link should take you to their programs of study/majors

This was going to be my suggestion as well. It's right down the street from Northeastern, Wentworth, Harvard Medical and Dental Schools, Mass College of Pharmacy, and Wheelock College, and around the corner from Simmons and Emmanuel, with BU and other schools a little further away, as well as near the Longwood Medical Area, Fenway Park, and right on the Green Line of the T, so it's in a great, safe area, with lots going on for students. I would definitely schedule a visit there. It is a public school of the MA state college system.

 

[clori]

RISD has a great reputation. I believe if you attend there you can walk to Brown University and partake in some of the extra curricular activities and if schedules allow even take a class at Brown.

 

[wilkeliza]

To those of you who have an Art degree or know a person with an Art degree, have you found it easy to get employed using that degree? What kind of jobs in Art did you get?

Degrees in Art you are going to have a hard time getting a normal job to be honest. At first I worked at Starbucks and worked into management. I also worked for Disney (both parks and store). I didn't get into more steady work until after I had management experience at Starbucks. Even the art studio that I applied for wanted non-art experience specifically customer service experience. They didn't really care if I could talk art or not.