<p>I'm looking for a school that has a good ceramics program (and, ideally, is strong in environmental studies as well). I'd prefer to go to a smallish progressive liberal arts school, but I don't want to rule out options like Alfred University. Right now I'm looking at Warren Wilson College (where Leah Leitson teaches ceramics -- I've met her and love her work), and Prescott College (which doesn't seem to have much of a ceramics program but really appeals to me otherwise). Any recommendations?</p>
<p>I had correspondence from the ceramics prof/artist of Pitzer college. One of the nice-est guy but couldn’t meet him.
Did go see school though, small? yes VERY. environmental thing? trying with own garden and chickens.
All Claremont colleges are stuck together, there got to be everything you imagine offered at somewhere. Consortium course thing is really open, not just lip service like some other grouping of schools. Trouble is, all other colleges are much in higher caliber than Pitzer, so I don’t know how hard it is to really mingle with kids from Pomona or Harvey Mudd, even Scripps girls.
I did not dig farther because of money issue and other fine art area is minimal, and summer heat, humidity, flora and fauna (bugs, amphibians and reptiles) reminded of the jungle exhibition in the zoo.</p>
<p>Alfred is a very good choice. Another good choice would be to go to RISD since they have supposedly strong liberal arts offerings, and you can take courses at nearby Brown.</p>
<p>One interesting possibility that you might want to investigate would be going to University of Rochester for environmental studies and taking courses in ceramics at nearby RIT. In fact, I think they have a bus that goes between the two schools,but I could be in error about this.</p>
<p>not small but evergreen state is the same kind as Warren Wilson.
Art is not big there in program wise but in real estate sense, it was the biggest, bigger than some art schools I have seen.
There is ceramics (more looked like grave yard of cray pieces in the warehouse and boiler room not klin)
I loved it there but again, it rains all the time and you might encounter vampires or werewolves in downtown Olympia.</p>
<p>Thanks guys!
Claremont is a good suggestion – I actually love the heat and humidity (which is kind of why Evergreen and RISD all those New York colleges don’t appeal quite as much to me).
I actually considered transferring to Evergreen last year. It’s a good thing I didn’t go – I didn’t know about the vampires and werewolves.</p>
<p>Alfred University in Alfred NY. It is a private school, but the ceramics programs is a state program so the tuition is lower (at least for NYrs, not sure about OOS). Great program.</p>
<p>sorry I am obsessed over twilight saga right now. It will be funny if Washington state become THE tourist destination. ( did it? like, sort of Magnolia bakery or Katz’s deli?)</p>
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<li>you’re not getting into Alfred</li>
<li>If you go to RISD you won’t have much time for serious liberal arts study at brown. i currently go to brown. they just shut down our ceramics studio because they are a bunch of tools. </li>
<li>swarthmore, penn, wustl, claremonts, macalaster, conn college, lewis and clark to be very unthorough. </li>
<li>don’t go to a school that doesn’t have much of a ceramics program but appeals to you otherwise if that’s what you want to study. </li>
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<p>i’ve been studying ceramics for 10 years. contact me. i mostly suggest looking up lists of good schools and checking their websites for what they have.</p>
<p>Definitely check out SUNY New Paltz. They have an excellent ceramics program and the progressive liberal arts environmnet as well. My son has a friend who is a ceramics major there and he told me he is doing some amazing things.</p>
<p>dictator, you are doing it again
you don’t know OP’s works yet.
You just can’t tell s/he if able to get in or not anywhere at this point.
S/he wants small progressive LACs and something of work-study, self sufficient-sh thing, Warren Wilson, Prescott, Evergreen etc.
if you want to help maybe better if you’d tell us why you didn’t go to art school to pursuer ceramics and why now after mighty Brown you want MFA making furnitures???
You mean furnitures made out of ceramics like Niki de Saint what her name?</p>
<p>Hi Lilymoon
I crawled back and posting again. It worked out well it seems, it all payed off for you.</p>
<p>oy vey bears and dogs.
i make no judgements on the quality of the OP’s work. I am making that statement based on my knowledge of <i>alfred</i>. very few people, even extremely talented people, get accepted. it is probably harder than HYPSM combined. it is not out of the question, but it is unwise to consider it a realistic possibility for anyone statistically speaking. By all means, please do apply to Alfred and there is always a chance you can get in. But realistically speaking, it is prudent to say to <i>anyone</i> that they aren’t getting in. Another option is to attend Alfred College (not their ceramics college) and study art in general. That is a realistic statistical option, if you are hung up on living in Alfred NY for 4years</p>
<p>My study at Brown and my recent shift to a focus in (multimedia – i.e. including glass, ceramics, and metal) furniture design is in no way reflective of my knowledge of ceramics MFA programs (as I was planning on pursuing that for many years) or my abilities. I attended Brown because I am smart, and at the time, was doubling in art and neuroscience. I later dropped the neuroscience to focus more on art. I also attend Brown because I am an athlete. Despite this, I have taken over half of my courses in studio and have also studied at the BFA programs at Tulane University, the University of Hawai’i, and the Rhode Island School of Design. [Eclectic</a> Art](<a href=“http://www.eclecticart.■■■■■■■■■■■■■%5DEclectic”>http://www.eclecticart.■■■■■■■■■■■■■) </p>
<p>I offered several small liberal arts schools that are progressive and have ceramics. I also listed Penn and WUSTL, not LACs, because it is a they are good schools with ceramics as well. Ceramics at the undergrad level outside of state schools is harder to come by so I thought offering more suggestions rather than fewer would be helpful.</p>
<p>I also offered to be of whatever help I can to clayclayclay given the extensive span of time I have been studying ceramics and the small amount of research I have done as to specific schools, and the large amount as to ceramics education in general. </p>
<p>peace</p>
<p>and i never prestige-mongered about brown, so don’t say “mighty brown” on me</p>
<p>you are much cuter and nicer than I’d imagined
well, brown is the might and you never fail to name the name so there.
how’bout “school in providence” or “some ivy” that’s how parents around here dying to brag would drop the hint.</p>
<p>i said brown because it’s 2 blocks from RISD and we have a relationship with RISD, and the posters were talking about the Brown RISD relationship!!! I mention Brown because it is almost always relevent to mention I have experience with RISD. So there.</p>