Personal Statement: Pursuing A Career In Art

I read with interest your job posting on the ASAE website for a PBL Program Manager.

My intended major is Art History. When I first took the Ancient-Medieval class in 2011, I was taken back by all the historic beauty to be seen and stories, to be heard. When I met Terri McDermott, my Western art professor, I became drawn even more so. I loved every lecture, assignment, exam, and taking notes. Having become an outspoken student, I communicated to professor McDermott after every class about comparisons between movements and artists. She quickly took notice of my interest and motivated me to take on the next class. At this time, I started to believe I had found my major so I set up an appointment to meet with a counselor to create my educational plan. From then on I began checking off classes on the associates degree for transfer

This semester I have grown as a student in the area of college readiness. This has allowed me to feel more planned for college. I have gained knowledge about college and how to prepare in order to be successful. In advisory we read a “college- going 101 timeline,” which provided steps on how to get ready for college. It gave me a list of procedures I can follow throughout high school. Some procedures it gave me where to; begin keeping a folder of important information, create a list of possible colleges to apply to, and attend a college fair.

An amateur photographer may take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place, as a person without a monetary motivation.

One of the most important values an artist can master is convergence. Throughout my years as an artist, I have begun to notice that this trait is equally as important in all aspects of life, not just art. Taking my general education classes at Pitt has revealed to me the relativity between all areas of knowledge and helped me to connect them into one cohesive and balanced structure. I have many different passions in life, and what I hope to achieve through my Pitt experience is how to tie them all together to help me find a career that allows for my creativity and resourcefulness to shine. I believe that while Pitt's urban and diverse campus fosters inventiveness, Japan could certainly enhance my academic experience.

My commitment to arts management and policy developed through my extracurricular involvement in the performing arts and work as a Development Assistant at Primary Stages, an off-Broadway theatre company in New York City. I am applying for the MA in Arts Management, Policy, and Practice in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester due to its emphasis on practical skills and work experience. Moreover, as I pursue a career as a performing arts manager, the university’s proximity to arts and cultural organizations will provide opportunities to engage with the competitive field of arts administration.

Before I can achieve a degree, I must commit to my studies. Education is the strongest foundation in any career. As it stands, I have taken interior design, architecture, and all levels of art including AP studio art, which I am currently enrolled in. My Advanced placement and honors classes have

As I continue through my third year of my Art History Major, I find not only my knowledge but also my mind expanding into a broader range of relevance to my career and life goals. Art History is the study of social, economic, religious and political components, which shape history through aesthetics. Studying the environment and events that influence the artworks produced throughout history has drawn me to the history of Christianity and its effects on First Nations peoples in Canada. I come from a multicultural family where I share Beaver Lake Cree heritage from my Father and Catholicism from my Mother. The contrast between these two belief systems has brought my interest to understand events that occur and have taken place to those who I have met, and also their ancestors.

When one thinks about the many places to acheive great success for the future many things come to mind. Either in the right people to meet, the right opportunites, and the right school to attend. For me the perfect choice would be of the Maryland Institute of Art due to a variety of reasons. Such as being one of the best in the country for the arts and really being great at preparing its students for the real world. MICA seems to be the perfect choice of leading me to what I would like to do and keeping me on that path. As well as being able to teach me to follow a career I would love and hopefully keep doing for a long time.

I am very interested and passionate about art and wish to pursue it as a career. I love learning as much as I can and would welcome any opportunity can to learn more about art and becoming a more experienced artist. I would like to have this opportunity to experience the “college atmosphere” and learn from college professors. I wish to meet artists my age and socialize with people who are like minded when it comes to learning and studying the many styles of art. I want to gain as much knowledge as I can in art and I am determined to learn as much as I can. I find art and watching artists fascinating and I become inspired to improve my skills.

I have always had an interest in art growing up, but I never took any classes until high school. In high school, I took three years of art class where I absolutely fell in love with art where I could create a work of art of my own from my own ideas. When I first applied to LSU, I registered my major as Undecided Arts, but I didn’t know exactly what I could do with an Art degree. I then decided to change my major to General Business because I thought it was very broad and an easy major. While taking my business classes, I realized that I did not have any interest in business and that I should do something I truly loved. I knew I wanted to do something with art, but I wasn’t quite sure of what major I wanted to major in. I did research into what

Despite my actions last week my one goal right now is to come back to Turpin and graduate. I am motivated to go to college to pursue my art career to the fullest extent and be a law-biding citizen with a Turpin education and a college degree. I believe art is something i excel at and it’s a way i express myself which i haven’t always been able to do. I have worked to make the school environment a place where students feel that

When applying to the University of Michigan, I knew I had varying interest and that coming to college was my opportunity to figure out how to mend my interest together. Entering college, I was accepted into the College of Literature, Science and Arts and Stamps School of Art and Design. I decided to only be in LSA because while I did want to keep art in my life, I knew I didn’t want it to be the main component of my life. I joined the Residential College so I could still be exposed to art and take art classes. I am currently majoring in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience with minors in Entrepreneurship and Community Action and Social Change. For graduate school I would like to focus on research related to developing programs for youth in communities of low socioeconomic status and predominantly Black and Latino. These programs will help youth deal with the community violence that they experience while exposing them to the arts and college/career readiness.

I am stuck in a rut and sense that my life is going nowhere rapidly. Having an idea of what I aspired to study in college, I found even the silliest excuses of why I couldn’t attend school. Previously, I have been weary of the costs, not having much, if any, of a portfolio, along with choosing an accredited school. Ultimately, after discovering how effortless the search is to find a design school that fits my needs, I finally know in my heart it’s now or never.

I absolutely adore art. It is, and always has been, an effective emotional outlet for me. As a young child, I was subjected to a lot of scary situations because of my alcoholic father. Even after my parents became divorced, I would visit his home for a weekend and witness him abusing other women with whom he lived. As a result, I had a sensitive disposition in the earlier years of my life; I was unable to handle loud arguments or yelling without dissolving into tears.