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!
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