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How to stay true to your artistic vision in academic environments

Everyone in my MFA program makes conceptual work and I just want to paint flowers but feel like that makes me irrelevant

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional pressure is creating doubt about the validity of personal aesthetic preferences.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Visual art — making images?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.