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Article: What's wrong with art schools.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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To the Editors:
I found your piece on the state of arts schools [A.i.A., May '07] interesting and relevant, albeit one-sided. As a third-year undergraduate art student at UCLA, however, I am fairly accustomed to one-sidedness. Though Charles Ray, an artist who teaches at my school, is quoted as saying "the reason the kids here are getting all this early success is because they're not art students, they're young artists," I feel like this is hardly the case. If I am a young artist and not an art student, why am I receiving grades, or paying so much tuition money? Why do I have so little control over the system that is governing my career decisions, or so little ...