Artistic Education

Let me start off by saying that I have been extremely lucky when it comes to school. I have always been home schooled, meaning that my parents - specifically, my mom - has been my teacher all the way from kindergarten through high school. This has given me the freedom to pick and choose classes that I'm interested in, such as Video I and II, or creative writing. Of course there are mandatory classes that I've taken too, Algebra being one of them. Not my strongest subject, but I survived.

However, high school will be over for me in a couple of years and after that I'll be heading off to college. The question of where I was going to go to college has been without a certain and specific answer for a long time, but recently I've come up with one. The Academy of Art University in San Francisco will be my school in a few short years and I can't wait. In fact, I'm so impatient that I've already started taking classes that they offer online for undergraduates like me. The Academy is such a great place for artistic and creative people. They have a department for everything, Motion Pictures and Television, Fashion, Music, Multimedia... the list goes on. That's all they teach, though. You don't take a handful of artistic classes and a bunch of science and math classes on the side, they focus entirely on your creative potential.

I'm personally very interested in their Multimedia Communications department, because it focuses on new media like Podcasting. I'm heavily involved in the Harwood Podcast Network (shameless plug: www.HarwoodPodcast.com) so an entire department focusing on the new way to create media sounds like heaven to me. Plus, I can minor in something else, like Cinematography for example.

Now that's just me, maybe you'd be more interested in their fashion program or their sculpture class. And maybe the Academy doesn't work for you because of their location or majors they offer, but either way my recommendation to you would be to look for a school that focuses entirely on what you love. Elementary and High School gives us plenty of general knowledge, college is supposed to focus on what you're going to do in your life. So why not make it something you love?

Check out the Academy here