The Maryland Institute College of Art

Date: May 18 2009
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
I loved this place except that it was in Baltimore! What a shit pit. Thankfully, Washington, DC and Philly and especially New York are not that far away. Coming from Seattle, this school had destinct plusses and minuses. Plus—Seattle is a Yeah, Whatever place. So whatever you are, whatever your pose, whatever your dress, this school is like Seattle where anything is fine. Negative—Baltimore is a shit pit so don't be yourself outside the environment of the school and the art world the school feeds into.

Can I say too much how great the faculty are? Can I say how progressive the school is? My art world in Seattle was so wide open … and yet in the uptight east (so we always said) there was such an openness. Pierre, my boy friend, is a curator in Seattle and 20 years older than me. We became a twosome when I was 16 and he 36 and his abilities in Impressionism was known and respected in Baltimore so when I moved here he was accepted by my professors. I was, I guess, expecting something else.

Adcive, be candid, the proft says. So, go for it. Don't worry about what your teachers or parents say. Put it out there. This school, after all the usual shit schools are about, IS about doing art well, so if you do art well, don't worry about anything else.

Gays are more than welcome as are cross dressers, young girls with much older boyfriends (like me!), half naked girls who love to show their bodies off (like me!), people who love Bach (me, too!), and whatever. If you're good at art, you can be whatever you want, so be it!