Pursuing A Career In Art: Personal Statement

My interest in art begins at a young age, art was introduced by my mother with projects from interior design to creating paintings for family friends houses. As i grew up being independent and encouraged to continue with art as a hobby my passion for all aspects of art grew. I grew up being home schooled up until the 9th grade where i was free to pursue more art and concentrate on finding strengths in art. During elementary school i experimented with fiber arts and fashion as an art form. I begun to grow an interest in a fashion related career and an academic career at FiDM in Los Angeles, as years went on i began to question a career as a fashion designer which later brought me to research fashion education and production.
In junior high i found the production of a fashion shoot far more interesting than the product and grew a large interest for fashion styling in an editorial setting, while doing so i began to pick up photography. Photography has been around me from a very …show more content…
As i researched and discovered schools i had started to develop a want of an art school to receive my degree from and be a stepping platform for a career in art. As i developed a style and eye in my photography i began to start narrowing down colleges to attend after high school. In my junior year of high school i had started visiting seminars and campus tours of colleges and picking out a possible major of photography. The end of my junior year i visited Otis college and fell in love with, Otis offered so much more that other schools didn't for me. Otis offers a serious path for their students and a welcoming and open environment to grow and develop into an artist with artist and professors and a location in Los Angeles. In my senior year i plan to graduate a semester early and start a creative academic career at Otis College which i hope will help me grow and begin a successful career as an