Ink Studies

I've been starting to go over my college list again, this time with art firmly in mind. I don't know whether I want to major in it, but I certainly want to get much more into the visual arts than I have before. And having some kind of letterpress / book arts facilities and courses would be very cool, too. A brief check, starting from my existing list, shows a few that clearly have this: Bard, Bowdoin, Carleton, Macalester, and Sarah Lawrence for sure, possibly the Amherst colleges via Smith. Still need to find out if us menfolk are allowed to take Smith classes or what. Interesting, though, that Reed, Oberlin, and Grinnell don't seem to, although Reed at least has a wonky, specifically "nontraditional" book-arts class or two. Probably not the decisive factor, but it does keep Bard and Sarah Lawrence high on my list, for sure. A little disappointing about Oberlin. [Update: Reed does have a Reprex letterpress. Missed it the first couple of times. Google to the rescue, naturally.] I'll have to look at the others I mentioned in more depth.

Also, a number of these (have to go back and look again, but Bowdoin, Grinnell, Hampshire, and Oberlin for sure) have preparatory programs for students intending to go into architecture and urban planning. Perhaps not essential, but very helpful, to be sure. And... oh... I have to remember what that one school was that offered a sort of one-year post-undergrad urban-planning prep program. I think it was in New York, for some reason, but NYU doesn't sound quite right. Hmm.

Time to get moving on this, no doubt about it.