BJDS And Art Schools

o3o i'm in the university of Fine Arts and it's always a pleasure to bring dolls around xD; Everyone's just so fascinated by them unless they're scared of dolls, of course.

 

@AnyungBunny, my husband was in SCAD and highly recommends it. Savannah is an amazing town.

 

I'm a junior at art school! It really depends on who you get as a roommate/ where you plan on bringing the dolls. I'm pretty sure my ex-roommate from last year had someone over who handled my dolls with my permission or supervision but that person was generally a nuisance whenever she came over anyway. My longtime friend and roommate of 3 years @Milky_Bat is in the hobby and also rekindled my interest in BJDs in our freshman year! As for taking your dolls to classes, I've taken my pukifees to my studio a few times and once for a crit (we had a packaging design project and I made a BJD box) and that was peachy, though if you're going to be around wet or messy mediums I would leave the doll home. I have two experiences bringing my DC Ada to a literature class and then to a dark computer lab for my video game elective when I first got her. One classmate in the lit class thought she was cool but then berated me for spending $200 on her, you know, the usual faire with people outside of the hobby and that was uncomfortable, but in the dark computer lab she went relatively unnoticed. If you have any tinies, they are generally inconspicuous enough and bringing them to a "work at your studio" day has been nice.

I hope that helped and wasn't too rambly!

 

If I we're in your position I'd definitely bring mine ^^

 

Also for reference, I actually keep all my dolls in my school apartment because when I go home for break I have to take a plane and man, traveling with all my dolls used to be easy when it was just three of them (albeit one was an SD and they're kind of a pain to take to airports) but every break it became less and less feasible to the point where I just kind of take some tinies with me haha.

 

I'm a sophomore at SCAD! I think there used to be a larger group of bjd owners here in the mid-2000s (I saw an old Livejournal post about a meetup years ago), but I only know of a few other bjd owners that go here now. There isn't any organized bjd group, unless you count one of my friends and me as a group of two.
I've never brought a doll to class with me, but I feel like it would depend on the atmosphere of the class? I'm a sequential (comics) major, and I'm sure a lot of those professors would be cool with it - I know at least one of them knows what bjds are, heh. I've also never had roommate problems; my old roommate was my bjd friend, and my current roommate thinks they're cute but doesn't really care.
Savannah is a really beautiful city, though, and it's great for photos! It's an old colonial city in the original plan, and there are a ton of trees and cool older buildings. I know you mentioned visiting, but in case you haven't seen this part of town: the area around River Street has a lot of places that've looked the same for over a hundred years, and a lot of stairs and interesting-looking spots, so it's fun for period shoots or just cool bjd photos in general. I also feel a little less awkward taking doll pictures outside in Savannah than at home, because people are used to SCAD students doing weird things for school projects already!