I urge you with all sincerity to not attend this horrible, horrible school. This place is as close to a fraud as you can get. Nearly all of the instructors have little to no experience in the fields they teach and the chairs, when there actually are any, are equally as inexperienced. Many companies will rejected a student’s portfolio simply because they went to this poor excuse for a school. The school is basically considered a joke in the arts communities it claims to service. Tuition is ridiculously expensive for facilities that are never updated with more that a few computers and empty classrooms. In the past 2 years the school has gone through three different deans, more than 10 department chairs, and countless instructors. By the way all the good instructors have long since left the school. DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL! It will steal your money, leave you with no job prospects and leave you over 80,000 dollars in debt.\r
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The Illustration department is easily the worst and most antiquated program at the school. Not a single graduate of this school has ever become a successful nationally respected illustrator. Not a single graduate of this school has ever been accepted into the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Spectrum, or any other annual of merit. The curriculum is a joke, requiring students to complete illustration projects that have been obsolete for over a decade. The best a student of illustration at this school can hope for is doing t-shirt design, or local business illustration where standards of excellence do not exist. Furthermore the instructor considered to the illustration authority at The Art Center, Don Fox, has not worked as a fulltime illustrator for decades if ever and has no reputation at all outside of Tucson, and in Tucson his reputation barely can find it’s way out of the building. What he teaches are failed experiences and lackluster methods with no substance. Probably why students think they’re doing well.\r
Pros: There are none.
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