Studio Art Graduate Student Cecelia Phillips
My experience
being an IE mentor has been especially valuable for me since I am in
my last year of graduate study. As a third year, I am dealing with undergraduate
students in a AI class setting, teaching students foundational skills.
However, this close study with a more advanced student not only lets
me express myself and my own studio concerns with a peer but also makes
me evaluate the process of how more advanced students should be taught
and guided, how to generate ideas, and how to strongly see them through
with a person that you respect and hope will one day become your contemporary
in the field. In short, the IE Pre-Grad Internship has given me the opportunity
to not only show a student the pros and cons of graduate study, but to
also re-think my own trajectory and to re-affirm the choices that I made
myself to arrive where I am at, and I celebrate that opportunity. I would
welcome the opportunity again and my relationship with my student this
year has been one that I will treasure and continue as she embarks on
her own academic journey in the years to come.