Jen Library - one of SCAD's coolest sites. SCAD students will tell you "Check out the bathrooms!!" Every time I go to the library to study, I find the place so comfortable I doze off!	According to the Savannah College of Art and Design catalog, “the goal of the college is to nurture and cultivate the unique qualities of each student through an interesting curriculum, in an inspiring environment, under the leadership of involved professors. The college exists for the purpose of the preparing talented students for careers in the visual and performing arts, design, building arts, and the history of art and architecture. The college emphasizes individual attention in a positively oriented environment.”
Some people aren’t aware that the campus itself is scattered all over the town of Savannah. The reason is this (according to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – hee hee – you can see how much influence that book had on me!): since the Georgia Historical Society was concerned about restoring the architecture without giving it a too-modern look, they certainly got worried when the founder of SCAD wanted to establish an art college in town. However, what happened was SCAD bought several buildings around town and changed everything INSIDE (to make classrooms, computer labs, art studios, etc…) and changed very little of the exterior so we still “fit in” …	Trustee Theater -- where many guest speakers and movies are shown - this is also where SCAD Fashion Shows are held for those who are majoring in fashion design (hint, hint, Sarahlena!)
One of SCAD's shuttle buses. Cool, huh??	I live across from Anderson Hall, home to the metals and jewelry department whereas I have three classes, two of which are in Alexander Hall (painting building) and Barnard Hall (art history/architectural history) which are WAY across town (at least that’s what it looks like to me).
Two of my painting classes (Oil Painting and Life Painting) are in Alexander Hall – a two story building where most of the graduate studios (including mine!) and critique rooms are on the second floor. On the first floor, there’s the woodshop and many painting classes are held. In the back there’s the famous Coke and snack machine (I must mention this: Savannah is a major COKE town – goodbye Pepsi!). My little studio is still relatively new compared to many of the other graduate studios. Some of them even have a futon bed (maybe they hire their own models???), shelves, and of course, their own easel (Mom and Dad – you now know what’s on my Christmas Wish List!). I do just about all the work in my studio on the floor, which I’ve grown quite accustomed to.	My little studio!
The halls of Alexander Hall (second floor) - many graduate students put up their work (some of them are for sale)...nope, you won't find mine up YET! :)	In my Life Painting class, that’s where we work on * ahem * nudes (quiet down, you guys!). The professor I have is rather young – a SCAD graduate from 1996 – and he is one of the FEW professors I’ve had all my life who makes an effort in learning sign language which is absolutely wonderful. So far, I’ve done two paintings of the same model – one that we worked for one day and the other we’ve worked on the same pose for 4 days (still working on THAT).
He made us do homework by making TEN self-portraits in black and white (either oil or acrylic) on large piece of paper, which I absolutely hated. Mrs. Drake, my high school art teacher, probably doesn’t remember me doing this but she made us do a self-portrait (just ONE on a small piece of paper, thank goodness) so I decided to do one based on a PHOTOGRAPH of my sister (hey! Many think we look like twins, all right?) …of course, that didn’t fool Mrs. Drake!	Alexander Hall - you can see the Savannah Bridge looming over it. Scary, huh?
The picture I was working on for Oil Painting - you can see a copy of O'Keeffe's work on the left.	Anyway…for my Oil Painting class, the teacher pretty much gives us various methods and techniques that they didn’t teach us in Beginning Painting Class … right now we’re working on a still life. I also had to do a project before this one where we chose a masterpiece done by a famous artist (I chose one by Georgia O’Keeffe) and divide that piece into 238 squares and make that many squares (grid-like) on a larger piece of paper. What we had to do was look at each individual square on the masterwork and decide what the main color in that square was then attempt to capture that color and paint on the larger square. Confusing, I know, but the result is a very pixelated picture that kind of resembles the masterpiece.
The only class I have at Barnard Hall is Contemporary Art History. So far, I like it since many of the works discussed are familiar to me (I took Modern Art History as well as History of Graphic Design at CSUN). But the only drawback is doing a 15-page research paper due at the end of the quarter as well as giving a 20-minute (maximum) speech based on the research! My fellow CSUN classmates would know of the 12-15 speech assignment given for Public Speaking class -- mine was timed at 6 minute and something seconds- That’s something I didn’t inherit from my dad – the ability to give lectures!!!	Barnard Street - and a bunch of SCAD students smoking on the front steps. Geez.
I'm all smiles! (at Lara and Kylie's dorm)	I continue to enjoy my graduate education here at SCAD and the people are really friendly around campus. Like the catalog said, I’m being “nurtured and cultivated based on the unique qualities through an interesting curriculum, in an inspiring environment, under the leadership of involved professors!” And how about ‘em apples?!?

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