On Tuesday, April 3rd I took a trip down to MICA to help me decide if I want to go to MICA for Graduate School. The first thing I noticed about the school is that it has a very artistic feel. I like the fact that there is art displayed in every building I was in and outside the buildings, there were sculptures and installation pieces installed by the students.
The main building for the Graduate Photography Program is called the Studio Center. It is a 5 story building and the photography department gets the whole 3rd floor. There is a individual studio (around 8x10 feet) for for almost every person in the program. There is a small locked computer lab with 2 - 17 inch printers, 2 workstations for video editing, 1 for sound editing and 1 3D printing. The other place Graduate Photography students work is on the 5th floor which is called the Graduate Computer lab. There is 2 - 44inch printers and 1 - 24 inch printers that you pay just for the supplies, roughly 1.50 per square foot and that includes paper. I thought that was a good price for printing large.
Also on the 5th floor is a locked equipment room with all digital equipment. They have 3 cameras with a variety of lenses, 3 professional HD Canon Video Cameras, tons of sound recording devices and a studio to record sound.
You get the option to student teach for up to 2 classes during each semester. Since I would be interested in seeing how it would feel to teach undergraduate classes, I think that would be a great way to get experience teaching and find out if I could see myself as a professor at a college or university.
The last big selling point is that MICA gets alot of great artist that comes to the school to give lectures, and every photographer that comes to the school will meet with each graduate of photography student and review their current work or portfolio. All in all this will be a big decision I will have to decide between now and the end of April.
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