<p>Hello - my son is not certain he wants to fully commit to an art school so he is considering going to a school that combines liberal arts and art programs. He's an above average student but not an exceptional one. He is just starting to look at schools so any advice the community has would be appreciated. He's looking at the East Coast as far as location.</p>
<p>this is asked often enuff and there is a LAC pro named momrath, you can look up on her post.
I am her self claimed disciple and this much I know</p>
<p>super hi stat
Williams (if you drink and are outdoor-sy jock-y)
Wesleyan (if you are super liberal and occasional drug use is OK)
Vassar (if you don’t mind people asking you "but isn’t it a women’s college?)</p>
<p>so so hi stats
Bard ( if you can stand THAT attitude)
Skidmore (if you got own horse to bring)
Connecticut college (if you don’t mind demographics)</p>
<p>bit shaky stats but got tons of money
SLC (same as Vassar)
Hampshire (if consortium works your favor) </p>
<p>if you can stretch to midwest
Kenyon, Oberlin, Knox </p>
<p>don’t know well but runner-ups
Bowdoin, Hamilton, Bennington</p>
<p>LACs are more traditional discipline heavy, like painting, sculpture, photo, art history, not good at getting technical skills in animation, design, digital or film production. some places don’t have things art schools would have. shops, kilns or print making facilities.
If your boy has certain goal and don’t like reading and writing much, it is not good environment to do art.
there are many all service universities that offer more choices. private and public.
have you looked at any? Does school size matter to you?</p>
<p>Bowdoin has a great arts program.</p>
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<p>I recommend University of Hartford for not-the-best students. They’re a smaller school, which is preferable for smaller people, and I heard they have good supplies. Supposedly they have a glass blowing club, and their printmaking program, I believe, is rather well-ranked. Plus they have the Hartt School, which is fairly good performing arts school, and the art school has connections to the Wadsworth, the oldest art museum in the US. Not too far from New Haven, and in between-ish NYC and Boston.</p>
<p>I like your characterizations, but what does “Connecticut college (if you don’t mind demographics)” mean? You’re ahead of me on that one.</p>
<p>you must be asking me, yes?
[Connecticut</a> College: Home Page](<a href=“http://www.conncoll.edu/]Connecticut”>http://www.conncoll.edu/)
It is in New London CT, next door to the coast guard academy where some cough cough, mingling is expected.
we went to see it because art program there is said to be good
it is THE only so-called somewhat selective LAC its admission was manned by grandma who looked at me as if I am a hobo. I mean, I am, sort of. but everywhere else people were painfully accommodating albeit superficially (except maybe Swarthmore’s certain known witch lady)
and
the least minority counts in the library and the cafeteria.
every girls had same sort of hair do and same sort of clothing and cars.
my kid’s classmate I took with said
" em… do you have to be white to come here?"
" but… you are white?"
" I am?"
he meant was certain kind of white people.
Art dept. was about OK, but in general I smelt that kids do ED there to get best shot knowing they are not Trinity Yale Brown Amherst material.
We sat in this community and art-sort of museum study class and girls were doing nails, eating cracker stick with cheese dip and texting.
we had rather big tour group because it was one of bank holidays. it thinned out real quick by parents saying, let’s hit the road, we got make it to (one of above ^^schools)
again, this is only our experience, one day. one tour.
no offense or racism intended. really.</p>