MCLA, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA.

"Transferring to MCLA was one of the greatest decisions I ever made. Being able to learn from and connect with the faculty and staff equipped me with greater networking capabilities/skills and the opportunity to use them outside of the institution, preparing me for the road ahead. Taking part and engaging in different clubs and organizations on campus helped to shape and guide me for countless opportunities."

Brandon Pender ’07
Research Analyst, Office of State Rep. Daniel E. Bosley ’76

Our students came up with their top 15 reasons to make art:

To express yourself.
Creative economies need people who think different than the norm – make art so that you are not a “company man.”
To have fun / be entertained and/or entertaining, be attractive to others
Because art is less destructive than war
Because you can
To make a dream come true
To understand innovation or how innovation works
Because your ideas and innovations matter
To use your visual imagination
To synthesize or connect unusual ideas
To make beauty
To stick it to the man.
Make art so you can wrestle with some of the greatest imaginative minds ever in the history of humanity.
Because society’s rules are sometimes stupid and art lets you test out and try new rules or change the rules.
To exercise freedom and to be a free spirit. Be free = make art

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