Today, Natural Light sorted out the wonderful content about Dora, the admissions officer of Rhode Island School of Design in the United States, and online communication with you. On October 3, Dora, the admissions officer of Natural Light Art and Rhode Island School of Design, had an online communication across the time difference. Our former admissions officer of SVA Chris, the full-time admissions officer of Natural Light, was online all the time, and conveyed the students' questions to Dora. During the period, Dora not only mentioned the requirements of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) for the collection of works, but also the extremely important exclusive information such as The RISD assignment, application letter, etc. In addition, she also discussed with Chris how to complete the RISD assignment!

Dora introduced RISD from the perspective of the admissions officer of Rhode Island School of Design. In her eyes, RISD is an art school focusing on inspiring experiments and basic education. In her words, it is "Experimental and Foundation".

First, let's talk about Foundation. RISD attaches great importance to foundation. In fact, RISD is very famous in art schools. If you open the homepage of one of their majors and click on the course page, you will find that the first semester is full of foundation courses. Basic painting, basic design, and basic skills are what RISD attaches great importance to. The foundation is stable, and later creativity is better.

The experimental part, RISD's student works, has always been famous for its artistic sense of unconstrained movement. The school encourages students to try new materials and new ways. (This avant-garde pioneering spirit is also reflected in the enrollment. Let's talk more about it later!)

　　 Three characteristics of Rhode Island School of Design:

　　 1. Focus on tradition

"Tradition" is what RISD attaches great importance to. Innovation is important, but you need to learn all the traditional skills. Starting from the most basic place, your creativity will be more secure.

　　 2、Unique Community

Dora told everyone that what they need to do in RISD is to explore the uniqueness of students. She hopes to see "unique mind and unique works". What Rhode Island School of Design seeks is for all kinds of interesting people to get together, rather than for everyone to get together and become interesting. In the final analysis, art is express individuality, and self expression is what RISD pursues, rather than a work of a thousand people.

　 　3、Peer with peer

The communication between different majors in the same grade, different grades in the same major, high and low ages, and the communication between undergraduate and master students all give RISD students more inspirational triggers.

　　 About the admission of art students to Rhode Island School of Design (what you want to hear most)

　　 1. About Portfolio (This whole paragraph is very important!)

About the collection of works, the number is 12-20 individual creative works of art. Dora specially reminds that it must be a single page submission, that is, one work per page! And cannot be repeated! And in the subsequent communication, Dora also said that RISD attaches great importance to the diversity of students! You will not suffer if you can submit more diversified works!

As for the content, "Don't let technical skills cover your personal voice", many students like to show off their skills and basic skills, but there is no personal expression. No matter how well you paint, the sculpture is really made. Take the large aperture telephoto lens to shoot the birds vividly. Without personal expression, it is not art!

Dora said Rhode Island School of Design RISD attaches great importance to personality and individuality, that is, it hopes to see students' personal feelings and ideas in the works. It can't be said that technology is not important, but technology alone is not enough to get an offer. To sum up, natural light thinks that the most perfect solution formula should be: technical skills+personality=Perfect portfolio.

In addition, refuse to imitate, unique originality, bold and creative self-expression, is the most powerful offer ace! Finally, Dora recommends several websites: Portfolios.risd.edu, which contains RISD collections of works, and they are all open! Precollege.risd.edu, portfolio. net, and aicad.slideroom.com can complete the online portfolio review of admissions officers! Upload your portfolio here, and the website will help you connect with the college admissions officer, and directly get the opinions of the admissions officer's portfolio, which is very useful! (See the last website, our old friend of Partner ArtOne~)

　　 2、Academic

The best high school performance is average B+, GPA is about 3.3, SAT and ACT are very important, and will pay more attention to the reading section scores, TOEFL93, IELTS6.5. These are hard standards, but Chris told Natural Light that when he communicated with Dora, the admissions officer of Rhode Island School of Design, he asked about the score. Not enough score is not good, but the language score is very excellent, which can improve your application competitiveness. So don't give up if you still have time to score!

　　 3. Common application session (CAE for short)

Dora said that many students try to write how much they love art, how much they like the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and how enthusiastic they are about their subjects, but these are not what CAE needs to show! CAE should talk more about themselves, and add information that portfolio cannot show. Dora clearly said that she wanted to hear students tell their own stories, views and ideas.

　　 4、the RISD assignment

This "assignment" is a special provision of RISD, which is not available in other schools. RISD features the independent proposition of RISD, which has always been a very special application item, from the previous bicycle to the deconstruction, light, and plastic just changed last year. However, in the conversation between Chris and Dora, one of the important information he got was "Focus on the concept". The proposition given by Rhode Island School of Design is not a restrictive term! no It's a concept! Students should start from the concept, find their own inspiration, and complete their own projects!

In addition, focus on detail and process, I believe that children studying abroad in Natural Light Art must be familiar with it. Teachers are familiar with the process and details! This doesn't mean how long it took you to finish the project. RISD doesn't care whether you spent a month or a year, but the details!

Well, the exclusive interview with Dora, the admissions officer of Rhode Island School of Design, is the end of the natural light! Children's shoes that missed the live broadcast, come and watch! In addition, studying abroad in Natural Light Art provides you with an opportunity to contact RISD instructors in advance! I believe it is very helpful to exchange your ideas with them and listen to your opinions!

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