Category Archives: student life

Recounting the Final Weeks of First Semester

By Ian Factor (MFA 2014)Tomorrow is New Years Eve 2013…We’re Still Here…Ready For More!Hard to believe the first semester at the New York Academy of Art has come and gone already. It’s been a wild ride since my last post with this month being a super-human push to get everything done, scrambling to catch up after the week away from… Read More

Sandy, Evacuation, Saville, Cotton and other happenings

By Ian Factor (MFA 2014)Well here we are coming through the first weeks after Hurricane Sandy. The good news is that the Academy was untouched and is fine, but is still, at this moment, without power, as is most of the rest of NYC below 39th street. Classes have been cancelled all week and we hope to get back in… Read More

My First Week at the New York Academy of Art

By Ian Factor (MFA 2014) Steven Assael Drawing Demo : Drawing I, First Day of Class, 2012 I’ve been trying to come up with catchy and witty metaphores and analogies to describe my first week here at the NYAA, and for a week I haven’t come up with anything that comes close to describing this immense experience. Perhaps beginning a… Read More

Tomorrow: Academy Orientation and First Day of Class

By Ian Factor (MFA 2014) My arrival in NYC about a week ago was interesting to say the least…when I finally found the apartment I had rented and went to open the door with the keys I had been given, none of them worked…locked out with a full bladder, double parked with a full truck. Good start, but the positive… Read More