Max the Mutt Animation School Blog
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The first things that enter my mind in reference to “What’s different about Max the Mutt?” are community and professional integrity. We are a good school for passionate, hardworking individuals who care about quality. Many of our instructors were born and educated abroad, and still have a passion for the craft of traditional art that is sometimes missing in academic institutions in North America.
Those of us who were trained in North America are individuals who searched and scrambled to develop ourselves beyond the limits of the curriculum we were offered. We tried to develop programs that we wish we’d had! We find that we can now teach in several years, through a well thought-out curriculum, what it took us as individuals much longer to achieve. There was genuine excitement among the faculty when we saw the work our students produced this year.
The point of art school is to teach basic skills, to empower individuals so that they can both communicate their creative visions, and continue to grow as artists. To that end, we continue, with humility, to be self-critical and will always review programs and try to improve. The process of education is, of course, also dependent on the attitude of our students and their ability to apply themselves to difficult tasks.
I find this undertaking as difficult as my efforts to keep evolving as an artist. In fact, it seems to me that education really is an art. It requires knowledge, skill, passion and humility. Maybe we can say that about anything we want to do very well. If we don’t want to sink into mediocrity, we have to care, and continue to care, very much about what we are doing. I think that perhaps this is an easier state to maintain in a small, artist run community than it would be in a larger institution.
Do come to see the graduate show and share your reactions with us.
