Admissions Officer, yes Collection review As a "gateway", it is a "review machine" before entering an art school, and it is also the first opportunity to be the nearest to an art school. The application season is just around the corner Natural Light Exclusive Admissions Officer Alliance Once SVA New York School of Visual Arts Admissions Officer Chris Jessick, using his own Experiences of senior admissions officers , take you to explore Collection application and collection creation ! About Collection of Art Studied Abroad Preparation, and Review of the admission decision of the portfolio What's the inside story? Let's take a look at Chris's interview!
Chris: "My job is to go around the world, meet and communicate with students who use SVA as their Dream School, review the art works of the works collection, and provide them with various application opinions. These are also my work in natural light.".
Everyone's impression of the admissions officer should be The admissions officer reviews the portfolio and interviews Maybe many students think that the only chance to see the admissions officer is during the interview. In fact, this is not the case. Many art schools will enroll students in China every year. At this time, you can actually see the admissions officer. What is enrollment in China? As we all know, although we submitted the collection of works when applying, many art schools still require students to participate in interviews. The interview in China is the formal enrollment interview held by the domestic office of overseas art schools. For example, UAL and MICA send their own school admissions officers to China to recruit students every year. Many of our common handwritten offers are actually issued by students when they participate in interviews.
Secondly, in addition to the interview in China, we have many opportunities to contact the admissions officer and get more information about art schools and "insiders" of art collections, such as Enrollment officer workshop, work collection review Etc. Taking natural light as an example, we hold several workshops sponsored by admissions officers every year, with themes covering various disciplines.
In addition, the Natural Light Exclusive Admissions Officer Alliance will provide students with Admissions officer portfolio review service Students can participate in several pre reviews by the admissions officer before submitting their works to the school, and the admissions officer will personally guide them to improve their works for many times. At the same time, excellent students also have the opportunity to obtain the recommendation letter from the admissions officer, and further improve their application success rate.
Chris: "SVA is a very different art school, different from other schools. It pays attention to the unique aspirations of students and personality. Every student in any major is different. They have their own characteristics. Even the creation of the same theme can give completely different ideas. In my opinion, SVA is a school full of vitality and passion, and every student can 'tell stories' in their own way. ".
SVA New York School of Visual Arts As the art school with the highest employment rate in the United States, its powerful energy deeply affects art studios, design teams, and every artist and designer around the world. All these are closely related to the teaching philosophy of SVA itself. SVA focuses on the expression of students' creativity, as well as a new and breakthrough cognition of a thing.
SVA student work, the picture is from the official website
Chris: "Although there are many ways to meet the admissions officer, for most students, they are not likely to have full, one-on-one, face-to-face communication with the admissions officer who reviews their own work. When the admissions officer reviews the collection of works, he or she will only browse 15-20 works (pictures) in the collection of works, and will not read your personal introduction in great detail. So for students, how should they make use of all the creative works? How to express your voice through works? What are your thoughts and personal opinions? "
Collection of Art Studied Abroad It is often the first way for colleges to know students, and the collection of works can also reflect a student's comprehensive artistic quality from the side. However, due to the limited number of pages in the collection, it is difficult to fully express all of your ideas and abilities. So, how to fully display yourself in a limited collection of works? How to express your voice and ideas through works? This requires us to have a clear understanding and planning of the collection of works.
First of all, the collection of overseas art works is definitely not a collection of finished art works. Let's take SVA as an example to see SVA New York School of Visual Arts Portfolio Requirements ：
The portfolio is used to examine the creativity, professional skills, and artistic potential of applicants. A portfolio should reflect each applicant's unique artistic background and experience.
Through the art study abroad collection, we need to show not only the final product of creation, but also the creation process and text instructions to express our ideas and ideas. At this time, the collection of works is used to apply for art schools, which is highly directional and functional.
Secondly, how can we fully display our advantages, artistic quality and creative ability under limited conditions? As Mr. Chris said in the video, he sometimes asks students to tell a story about themselves in 20 works. These varied and interesting exercises and attempts will help you create more creatively and purposefully, and at the same time, you will have the ability to maximize the expression of inspiration with extreme creativity.
Just as we should focus on the primary and secondary and the key points in creation, Collection layout At the same time, we should take advantage of the highlights we need to show, develop our strengths and avoid weaknesses, and show as much of our creative content, design ideas and logic as possible to enrich and enrich the collection of works.
Finally, as SVA's official information revealed, a collection of works should reflect each applicant's unique artistic background and experience. Each of us is a unique individual, and the collection of works should also be unique and full of personal style. Collections with distinctive personal characteristics are often more attractive to colleges than collections with good typography.
Natural light strongly encourages people to combine their own advantages and hobbies to create interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional works, so that the collection of works will not only stay in a single professional aspect, but also have more spatial leaps.
Chris: "I think that at present, many students study art through a very traditional teaching mode. They focus too much on technology, such as painting skills, and their works still stay in practical design. The students of natural light can cooperate with many artists, designers and tutors here due to the influence of overseas art teaching mode, so their works often exceed everyone's expectations. In particular, I have recently met several students whose works are simply another surprise and excitement. Although in the previous working environment (SVA Admissions Office), I have been able to contact many excellent student art works, but the works of natural light students still left me a very deep impression. "
Be subject to Differences between domestic and foreign teaching modes When preparing for art study abroad, many domestic art students often feel uncomfortable with foreign teaching models and creative methods. In the creation of works collection, more attention is also paid to the presentation of performance techniques and final works, which is almost completely contrary to what is advocated by foreign art schools. So, what's the inside story of a collection of works that can impress admissions officers and attract the attention of colleges and universities?
Compared with complete and beautiful works, foreign art schools tend to prefer students with creative awareness and the courage to break the rules. For example, let's take Parsons as an example to see the requirements of the school for applicants:
When you apply, we pay more attention to your experience, achievements, motivation, and growth potential. (Even if your art or design experience is very limited)
Another example is RCA/ Royal College of Arts Admission Criteria ：
Our criteria for enrolling students are mainly determined by your talent and potential, as well as your sense of responsibility and ambition in the art or design discipline.
The information of colleges and universities that everyone can see is actually the most easily ignored insider! So, after seeing the simple requirements of the two best art schools in Britain and the United States for applicants, do you have any inspiration? Although excellent techniques and creative expression ability are also worthy of attention, compared with this, creative awareness, potential and sense of responsibility for art are more valuable.
In the face of such a large gap in teaching form, in order to enable students to quickly adapt to the design and creation of foreign artistic thinking, natural light has always adhered to the overseas teaching mode as the leading mode, combined with various forms, to help students carry out interdisciplinary project practice. From the Union of Admissions Officers, to the tutors and professors of foreign art colleges, and to the teaching department of the "six major departments" of Natural Light, all of them take the teaching philosophy of overseas colleges as the core, and combine the integration of interdisciplinary awareness to build a multi-dimensional discipline system for each student. The links are interlinked. Although the departments are managed vertically, the natural light also encourages students to cooperate across departments and try in more fields, so that the collection of works has different creative awareness and concepts from the starting point to creation.
In addition to work guidance, natural light also provides students with an adequate interdisciplinary practice environment, including various workshops, summer classes, short-term classes, and a series of project based practices.
The above is Chris's advice on the preparation of your portfolio. In fact, Chris is not only an admissions officer. Trevor Amery from the Natural Light Exclusive Admissions Officer Alliance, who has seven years of experience as a MICA admissions officer, has also brought practical Suggestions on Collection Creation and Application Look for natural light if you want to see it!
Chris Jessick
SVA's former International Admissions Officer
SVA former Marketing Manager
Independent film director
Experimental music, multimedia artist
Teacher Chris graduated from SVA New York School of Visual Arts Film After graduation, he engaged in film and television work in New York, set up his own studio, and served as SVA's international admissions officer and marketing manager.
During more than eight years of working at SVA, he has been responsible for the development of the first enrollment in China, the review of the works and scores of international transfer students, SVA's external publicity planning and video shooting, and the connection with the enrollment departments of many American universities. Now he is the Deputy Director of Overseas Development in Natural Light.
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