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.
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