{"id":734,"date":"2021-07-11T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-09-27T21:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:35:19","slug":"changing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Changing course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote somewhere that what I really want to do is a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). That&#8217;s not something you can jump straight into &#8211; you either have to come out of college level arts and have your portfolio pre-approved, or apply and have your portfolio accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To build a portfolio, and get back into learning, I&#8217;d enrolled in Massey&#8217;s Diploma in Visual Arts course. Seemed like a win\/win option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it is possible to take some of the BFA modules as part of the DipVA, with permission from the faculty. So, I spoke to one of the BFA tutors on Zoom to ask about this. He suggested that, rather than wait, I just submit a portfolio immediately. If it was accepted, then I could switch to BFA and save a lot of time (taking my DipVA credits with me); if not, then at least I&#8217;d know what I need to work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I submitted a portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The portfolio was accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m now a BFA student!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is quite&#8230; a nice surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote somewhere that what I really want to do is a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). That&#8217;s not something you can jump straight into &#8211; you either have to come out of college level arts and have your portfolio pre-approved, or apply and have your portfolio accepted. To build a portfolio, and get back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[19,20,9,8],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bachelor-of-fine-arts","category-reflections-on-studying","tag-bachelor-in-fine-arts","tag-bfa","tag-massey","tag-massey-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestir.red\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}