Jordan
MassArt has a great student community. Although very competitive, the students become well aqcuainted with each other and rely on each other for support. The facilities are equipped with new technology and the library has amazing resources.
Emma
The education department strives to engage students in real life situations. There is student teaching every semester, and class time is based on a lot of discussion and unpacking of situations observed in the classrooms of Boston Public Schools. The staff is encouraging, and challenges the department with questions of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc., and creates an environment where open discussion and learning is possible. There is also a broad network of educators in Boston Public Schools who often speak with the education students and answer questions about working in urban schools.
Alayna
The open-mindedness of the students. Everybody is very friendly and does not judge anyone, and it is a very carefree and stress-relieving experience.
John
The combination of the supportive faculty and the student community which makes for an intellectual stimulating environment. The faculty goes to great lengths to expose the students to lecture series and gives a realistic real world view of what to expect as well as what is possible upon graduation.
Trisha
MassArt has a staff and population that want to help you. The teachers and staff that I have encountered love their students and their work, they encourage students to do what they want and to learn. After my first semester at MassArt, I felt that there is hope in artist community. Not only do the professors want to help you complete your assignments, they want to help you become a better person.
Fay
Massachusetts College of Art gives students opportunities in the form of artistic and thinking freedom. For example, a class discussion about outside knowledge relates to an open-ended, perscribed assignment. In this way, the student is encouraged to think. The method of thinking through the visual arts is effective at this school. With the addition of thoughtful and critical professors, the student is further pushed to exercise his/her mind. Thus, MassArt does promote thinking more and for a more open mind, essentially, it gives a very good education.
Kerry
my school wants to have a well rounded artsit and they will teach a student everything they are willing to learn about all types of art. there are workshops after classes with teachers that will answer any question.
Jessica
Making art all the time is such a rewarding experience as well as a learning and problem solving experience which has made me a better artist and designer.
Tyler
The way in which we are enabled to, essentially, teach ourselves, as well as how students are pushed into areas of study or methods that they are uncomfortable with. These allow for heightened exponential growth that can begin changing a student before he or she even knows it.
S
The community, the teachers do not place themselves above students, there are many opportunites to truly bond with them.