Pros and Cons for Low Residency Art Students

Below are a few points for art students to consider with regard to low residency art programs.

Pros

Your World - Low residency means you’re away from the day-to-day BS that happens on college campuses.

Follow Your Art - You get to design and carry out your own vision.

Pride - Whatever you accomplish happened because of your own sweat and tears.

Get Ahead - You can build a professional practice (or maintain an existing one) while simultaneously earning your degree.

Travel - If you are not bound to any one place then you can learn in remote locations.

Partnerships/Internships - You can turn a job or artistic residency opportunity into college credit.

Work - If you have a job, you can keep it.

Cons

Flying Solo - Low res programs can be lonely at times.

Uncertainty - It can be hard to tell if you’re “doing it right” because there are no other students close by to measure yourself against.

Do You Need It? - You could’ve made art without having to deal with the degree program work on top of the rest of your responsibilities.

Debt - If you don’t have the money and you opt to borrow, that’s gonna weigh on your art practice.

Closeness - In a university setting it’s easier to dismiss interpersonal problems because you’re not bound to any one person. With low res programs you tend to have one or two people who have a lot of influence over your academic fate.

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