Preparing students to enter professional visual art colleges.

The evolving nature of art and art education and the introduction of technology make the preparation of students for entry into professional visual art colleges a timely topic. Twenty-seven years of experience in art college administration makes it an even more interesting topic for me personally. To gain a broader perspective for this article, I surveyed the CEOs of the nation's independent colleges of art and design, asking them to describe what they thought was important in the preparation of art students. In this article, I present a summary of their comments and then conclude ...