Friday night, I set my alarm to catch an early train from New York to Boston. Before it went off on Saturday, I woke from a dream in which I was visiting my high school secretary to tell her I was going to grad school. My alarm started beeping, and I thought, "I don't want to go to grad school. Do I?"
I am a photographer, and would like to consider myself a fine artist. However, I am more like a small business owner who knows how to market her creativity. Pursuing an MFA would certainly give me the opportunity to make my craft and artistry the real priority. But I love working, and am not sure I feel inclined to re-immerse in academia, being 7 years pleasantly removed from my undergraduate degree in film. After all, a working editorial photographer in New York City is not accustomed to subsisting on ramen noodles. But, film major or not, a liberal arts degree does not equal having been through art school, and I want to know the joys of playing with clay, canvases, graphic design software, and obsessively contemplating the great artists who came and went before me.
After weighing the pro's and con's, I decided to found the University of Sarah, and give myself my own MFA education. This way, I will commit to educating myself, without having to quit working and sequester myself to any place with quadrangles and cafeteria food. I have created this blog to document the process, and welcome - as in the discussion forum of a classroom - thoughts, feedback, and responses to any and all steps in this process.
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I thoroughly endorse this educational institution.
You're a smurfing genius, MFA or not. Good on ya, mate (as the Australians would say), and bon voyage. I'll be with you in spirit, via your blog updates.
As the former regent, docent, chancellor of the exchequer, chief operating/executive officer, comptroller and janitor of the world renowned University of Patrick Adams (Adams: the First Name in American Photography) allow me to formally welcome you to the rarified air of autoacademia. While it's not as easy as autoerotica, it is every bit as gratifying. Just pick up a few books, build an enormous studio and practice, practice, practice. In no time you'll be doing senior pictures, weddings and free pictures of people in bands, and models for their portfolios. It's exciting. Fulfilling. And highly financially rewarding.
Yours in Christ,
Professor Emeritus
Patrick S. Adams B.A., RN, Ph.D in the gentle art of bullshitting
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