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Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Why do you want to be a game designer? (400 words max recommended)
Provide a brief analysis of a game (non-video game) that you like. Be sure to include a description of the game and an explanation of what you like about the game and your opinion as to what makes the game fun. (400 words max recommended)
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
A work of art is the result of many factors, ways of working, and kinds of thinking. Discuss how the elements below are related or integrated in your own work. Explain how you approach the process of art making in regard to these factors, and feel free to add other elements that are important to you. (400 words max recommended)
Skill.
Choice of materials or medium.
Personal experience/feelings/intuition. Why you make art.
Research/sources of inspiration.
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Describe the most profound reaction you’ve had to a work of art. This might include an experience in a museum or gallery exhibition, engaging with work out in the world, or in books, magazines, or online.
What is your favorite story (from a book, novel, poem, fairy tale, or movie)? Why does it resonate with you so deeply?
Choose a currently practicing illustrator and tell us what you like about their work.
Essay 2
Please provide brief answers to each of the following prompts (3-4 sentences for each question).
What do you feel is the greatest strength you can bring to the field of Illustration?
What areas do you feel you need the greatest growth as an illustrator?
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Essay 1
Please provide brief answers to each of the following prompts (3-4 sentences for each question).
What initially sparked your interest in Entertainment Art?
Why are you interested in a career in Entertainment Art?
Do you spend more time watching movies, playing video games or reading stories? What interests you about this form of entertainment?
Essay 2
Please provide brief answers to each of the following prompts (3-4 sentences for each question).
What do you feel is the greatest strength you can bring to the entertainment industry?
In what areas do you feel you need the most growth as an illustrator?
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describes your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Essay 1
Describe your interest in the Interaction Design major at ArtCenter; the people and projects that inspire you; and what you would like to accomplish in the Interaction Design field when you graduate.(400 words max recommended)
Essay 2
Describe the innovations you think will happen in Interaction Design over the next five years. Describe why you think these innovations will occur and provide evidence for this rationale. (400 words max recommended)
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Essay 1 - Influences
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Essay 2 – Risk Taking
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Essay 2 – Risk Taking
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Essay 1 - Influences
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Essay 1 - Influences
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Essay 2 – Risk Taking
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Essay 2 – Risk Taking
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
Essay 1 - Influences
Who do you believe to be the three major artists and designers who are shaping the discipline you are interested in pursuing or who have influenced you? (400 words max recommended).
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice of major and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Short Answer Essay
Describe the path that has led to your choice to become an artist or designer and describe your educational goals. (100 words max recommended)
Essay 1
Sometimes, the most meaningful aspects of who you are as a creative individual are not apparent from an application for admission. What should we know about you that will help us understand your decision to commit to a creative path? Take this chance to share your story, your motivation, or your personal point of view with us. (400 words max recommended)
Essay 2
Taking a risk comes more easily to some than to others, but for most it will be an important part of becoming an artist or designer. Explain a risk you’ve taken in your life that has paid off—exploring something new, confronting a fear or problem, or taking a stand on an issue. (400 words max recommended)
The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores? Choose the option that best helps you answer that question and write an essay of no more than 650 words, using the prompt to inspire and structure your response. Remember: 650 words is your limit, not your goal. Use the full range if you need it, but don‘t feel obligated to do so.
Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?
Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you‘ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.
