The University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Date: Sep 18 2009
Major: Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc (This Major's Salary over time)
I transferred to the University of MN in the Spring of 04'

I am a lover of art and quickly enrolled in the University of Minnesota's CLA program. This was after I discovered I did not have the money to attend MCAD.

I quickly realized my mistake.

Their basic drawing classes are populated by arrogant, self absorbed instructors who would rather have their students painting or drawing about suicide and eating disorders then learn something as valuable as foreshortening and balance. So I spent my entire student life pandering to these egotistical ass-hats rather than actually learning anything.

The University of MN is also very lacking in any computer based Art classes. There is a 3D animation class that I attended (assuming they haven't cut the program) and had an awesome time, but that is but one diamond in a huge mountain of ****.

Photoshop is practically unused, and the imacs the University uses are not able to fully handle the weight of the programs they run.

The one thing I discovered that just made me giddy with how badly things are run at the UMN is how they have their colleges separated. You see they decided that if a student wanted to use programs like Indesign, or Photoshop, that they must want to be Design majors, and should enroll at the design college. What makes me so angry about that is that if you are enrolled in the Design college, you can take regular drawing and painting classes from the CLA college, but if you are enrolled in the CLA college, you CAN NOT take classes through the Design college unless you want another 4 year commitment. If you love modern art, and other liberal tripe, then the UMN is perfect for you. If you want to be an actually talented artist and learn skills that will help you make a living doing something you love, then go somewhere else. All I can say is I wish I'd gone to MCAD.