<p>D was accepted to NYU Steinhardt for Studio Art today (ED)! Thank you to all who offer advice on this thread! So relieved!!!</p>
<p>Yeah! Good for her! Great news uscoolfish!</p>
<p>Oops, I meant uskoolfish. Got carried away.</p>
<p>Congratulations uskoolfish. Great news!</p>
<p>congrats!!! why don’t you join us in the launch?</p>
<p>Good wishes and happiness are also being sent from ursos et canes. Your latin fairy godmother.</p>
<p>Love having a fairy godmother…but who is she?</p>
<p>Hahaha, use google translator if you don’t get it right away. Then you’ll feel really silly that you had to use it (like me, your viridis veneficae).</p>
<p>Congratulations to both you and your D! Is the process basically over for now? You can both relax? That would be great.</p>
<p>I did the deposit on-line already, so now D just has to make sure she passes all her AP classes. Since older D is already in her senior year at NYU, I am hoping I am an old pro and kind of know the ropes.</p>
<p>uskoolfish:
Is your oder D study art also? If so, What is her plan after graduate?
I am asking only because my D is a sophomore in Cooper and I am thinking like: after that, what she can do? “starving artist” pop up so often.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D!</p>
<p>Love blue.
Older d is a vocal performance major art NYU with a concentration in musical theatre. So still a talent based major without the best career track record. Certainly she could fall under the starving artist umbrella.</p>
<p>I am optimistic, though. For starters she will be getting a BM degree which means that she can go into music Ed down the road. This is not an option she is considering now, but can someday.</p>
<p>She also has a minor in the business of entertainment media and technology which has allowed her to take producing, development and marketing classes for tv, film and music.</p>
<p>This, along with a resume filled with internships at Sony, dream works and Scott rudin production, will hopefully open the door for jobs in the entertainment industry. She would be very happy being involved in the business end of entertainment.</p>
<p>She intends to graduate and audition as well. Ultimately I feel it will be a matter of seeing what options present themselves. She is realistic, flexible and hard working. I believe the luck factor is also involved and I hope she has plenty of it!</p>
<p>woohoo… now you can relax and watch the others sweat - LOL… </p>
<p>Seriously, that is great! But don’t disappear from this forum.</p>
<p>-Bob</p>
<p>Thanks, Bob. Don’t worry, I won’t disappear–too much of an addict!</p>
<p>uskoolfish:
Your D is on a GOOD track! She must be talanted and worked hard, good for her!
What your younger D will focus on?</p>
<p>For Studio Art majors, NYU has a foundation year and then you choose a concentration–but there seems to be a lot of flexibility. Younger D wants to be an art teacher and always has–it’s not a matter of practicality on her part. (Not that becoming a teacher is particularly practical these days–especially in the arts.) She likes drawing/ painting and sculpture.</p>
<p>That said, I do think there are other options that she has never even considered. I think being in the city will allow her to see other options. Personally, though, I can see her as a teacher. </p>
<p>What does your D at Cooper see herself doing?</p>
<p>uskoolfish:
my D is interested in painting/drawing/sculpture. I guess she will consider to becoming a teacher to make a living. I know she want to live by sale, but how can she be that lucky.</p>
<p>What kind of options you think your younger D should explore?</p>
<p>I think that any one who is still in high school or college will not know the options that are available to them until they work several interships and meet and network with different people who are a bit older and have explored the options that are available to them.</p>
<p>Right now she says that she wants to be a high school art teacher. But that is what she has been exposed to in life so far. Down the road, she may choose to teach on a college level…or plan art programs in museums…or plan exhibits…or do art restoration…or sell art in a gallery…or appraise art…or sell her art…or work as an art director…or as an illustrator…or study interior design…or set design…or do art therapy…</p>
<p>I do think there are many ways that artists support themselves. If she ends up being that high school art teacher, then that is great, too!</p>
<p>you are right, there are so many options. You list openned my mind that will help me when I talk to my daughter!
Thanks!</p>