Write a personal statement explaining your purpose in applying for graduate study in Photography.
What is your purpose in applying for graduate study in your specified degree program? Describe your area(s) of interest, including any subfield(s) or interdisciplinary interests.
Drawing, painting, photography, portrait. Drawing people of all culture, ethnicity, country.
What experiences have prepared you for advanced study or research in this degree program? What relevant skills have you gained from these experiences? Have your experiences led to specific or tangible outcomes that would support your potential to contribute to this field (examples: performances, publications, presentations, awards or recognitions)?
Why is the graduate program to which you are applying is the best place for you to pursue your academic goals? If you are applying for a research master’s or doctoral program, we encourage you to indicate specific research interests and potential faculty mentors.
Master of Fine Arts. In Drawing Painting
What are your plans for your career after earning this degree
Teach art at college level
Are there educational, personal, cultural, economic, or social experiences, not described in your Statement of Purpose, that have shaped your academic journey? If so, how? Have any of these experiences provided unique perspective(s) that you would contribute to your program, field or profession?
Describe challenge(s) or barriers that you have faced in your pursuit of higher education. What motivated you to persist, and how did you overcome them? What is the evidence of your persistence, progress or success?
School was expensive. living expenses were a lot too. but I worked hard every day didn’t give up. Started at a community college and worked hard to receive merit scholarships, ot accepted into a 4-year art school for the artwork which helped to persist. Im from a poor south Asian country. Very few women and men in my country get the opportunity to receive an American education. So I never took it for granted.
How have your life experiences and educational background informed your understanding of the barriers facing groups that are underrepresented in higher education?
My life experiences are directly related because as a woman belonged in the barrier facing group until I decided to pursue Higher Education. Women are seen as weak counterparts in my country. The pay is not equal yet. There are many factors but the most important I think is the lack of education. I think the barrier facing groups need more opportunities so that they can help guide their communities in a direction that would help eradicate poverty and the lack of higher education.
How do you intend to engage in scholarly discourse, research, teaching, creative efforts, and/or community engagement during your graduate program that have the potential to advance diversity and equal opportunity in higher education?
How do you see yourself contributing to diversity in your profession after you earn your advanced degree at?
