Art Colleges

I am a high school sophomore looking for help and suggestions as to how i should continue my art education. Good at oil and acrylic painting as well as pencil and graphite.

Went to the art institute, they have schools all over. Plenty of talented people there (though some are a just a joke)… they interview you but you dont need a portfolio but it is a plus if you do have one.

I’ve been wanting to do some college search but i wanna attend an arts school where i can focus on my painting and studio work. So if you have any recommendations i would be very thankful. Also my boyfriend wants to follow me and so if it has a good film program that would be great as well.

Savannah College of Art and Design (campus in Atlanta and Savannah Georgia) – thats where i am going next year

Parsons new school ofdesign NYC

PRATT Nyc
if your bf follow you e can go to the NYC Film Academy
Drexel in PA

North carolina school of the arts

For various reasons, including just wanting to experience life in some other part of the world, I’ve been having a burning desire to move to Europe. I’ve narrowed down on England or The Netherlands as possible locations.

So I’m wondering what would be a good art or design school from these places? Particularly any that work with digital media or art direction, and any that are ideal for foreign students.

If it helps any, I’m currently a junior digital media student at UCF in Orlando, Florida, USA. My career goal is to design for film, television, videogames and the like.

Please read:
ArtSchools.com – The Art School Directory >>
Europe > London
Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands>

I want to go to college for Photography. I currently live in Pennsylvania but Ill be moving to California in a few years. Can you list some good colleges for me? Im still in high school but its good to start planning.

The two top photo schools in California are Art Center and Brooks.

http://www.artcenter.edu

http://www.brooks.edu

The top photo school in the East is RIT

http://www.rit.edu

I’d like to go to college somewhere warm all year round (a little sick of the michigan winters). I’d really like to go for Graphic Design or Photography (both if possible). I’m kinda looking into Texas and oddly enough I prefer not to go to Florida or California. Does anyone know pretty good design colleges?

there are three colleges in texas that offer BOTH graphic design AND photography:

St. Edward’s University
Austin, TX

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX

University of Houston
Houston, TX

here is the college in arizona that offers both majors as well:

Art Center Design College
Tucson, AZ

i hope you realize how hot those two states are! i would definitely choose florida or california over texas (or arizona), they are wayyyy too hot! you cant even go outside when its 113 degrees outside! just trying to help

I’m thinking of changing my major and I know if I want to get in I have to start applying next fall during the portfolio season. I’m not sure if I want to try 2-d or 3-d or both. Probably both since 3-d is the way we’re going but I like 2-d cartoons better myself.

I live in upstate new york but I’m willing to try anywhere in America if it’s good.

Right now I’m looking at pratt ny, mass art and design, ringling in fl.

I like Pratt and Mass Art. Mass Art is stronger for animation than Pratt, although both are good art schools.

Add SVA to your list. It’s in NYC, like Pratt, but is stronger for animation than Pratt is. Parsons may also be worth looking at.

For animation, I’d also have you look at RISD, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, Rensselaer Polytechnic, NYU, UC San Diego, and Art Center College of Design.

I’d use Ringling as your backup school. The others on this list are stronger.

As for which you want to do: 3D or 2D – that’s up to you. I know it looks like 3D is taking over the planet, but in reality… not really. Most of the animation done for TV, for example, is all 2D. 2D v. 3D animation – what’s popular varies, depending on the time period. 3D in film is popular now, but in 5 years? Who knows?

It’d be great if you can do both, but if you must choose, go with your heart and your interests. But explore both during your first year, and see which one interests you the most.

Schools that are good art schools, which are upstate if you’re interested, are RPI, which I mentioned, as well as Syracuse and RIT. SUNY New Paltz and SUNY Purchase may also be options, although I don’t know their animation departments (if they even have them!), but they are decent art schools, and SUNYs, so for you, relatively cheap. Hunter College, which is a CUNY, is also good for the arts, and as a CUNY, for you, cheap.

Also check out the Cooper Union. I don’t remember if they offer animation, but as an overall art school, they rock, and they are free if you can get in. Free.

Have you been to a portfolio day yet? Maybe something you can do this fall, if interested:

http://www.portfolioday.net/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,47/

I am interested in pursuing a career in the graphic arts. I want to carry around a laptop the whole school day without being forced to put it up. I’m looking at colleges in advance (I’ll be a sophmore next year) because I know how compeditive things are. My GPA is about 3.0.
I’ve seen one college whose style I like in particular, its called Full Sail University. Does anyone who goes there have any opinions?

evergreen university, in Olympia, Washington is one of the top art universities in the country.
i live in Olympia and let me tell you, there are greeners (thats what they are known as) EVERYWHERE and let me tell you they are very interesting but so cool.
evergreen is a very laidback school too.
i think that going to evergreen would be an unforgettable experience and you’d get a lot out of it.
plus the olympia area is a very fun place to live, there really isn’t a boring day, the weather is also nice ofcourse we do get alot of rain but you get used to it and our summers have perfect weather.
and washington landscape is beautiful too. we care a lot about the environment.

hope i helped. =]

I am decent at drawing. I am thinking of going to an art institute. I know you have to submit a portfolio. I am wondering if they ever look at someone’s portfolio and say "Uh, you’re not good enough."

they might turn you down, yes. I have seen it happen.
It depends on which school you want. Some are hard to get into, some are really easy. You have to do research on this.

Before you worry about it, you have to ask each school you are interested in what they are looking for in the portfolio. You might find that some of them might give you a test instead of taking a portfolio. Better check up on that.

Another thing you can do is actually ask one of the teachers or someone at the school you like to look at your art and have them tell you directly how good your chances are. Don’t forget to try that.

I’m planning on moving to Seattle to finally get a bachelors in something. I just don’t know what school to go to. I’ve looked at Art Institute of Seattle and they seem nice, but I heard that employers don’t really like that school. I’m trying to go into game art design. Anything that will let me either make the game or design the characters, landscape, costumes, whatever. Does anyone know of any schools out there that might have classes for that, other then AI Seattle?

I go to Digipen Institute of Technology in the Seattle-ish area. They’re really located in Redmond, WA. The Bachelor degree in Fine Arts of Production Animation is a game/production level with a little bit of everything. Concepts, animation, 3d (modeling and animating).
The staff are all motivated to teach and help everyone. We also have some notable teachers that have quite a reputation. The school isn’t very large compared to other schools, and everyone tends to know everyone.

Check it out: http://www.digipen.edu

So name all the art colledges in the US that you know of….thanks!

This is not a reasonable question. There are scores of them.

If you want to know about Colleges that give degrees in Fine arts, then go to the guidance dept of your school and look up in the reference books that list colleges according to the degrees they offer. You will find many independent and highly respected schools such as RISD and PCA and many other schools that have departments of fine arts. I think just about every large university, including the state universities, have depts of fine arts.