My name is Nicholas Pobutsky and my
major is Art History and I have an
Applied Art minor. I chose to major in
art history because I thought, personally,
that I ought to know about art history
because I thought was important to world
culture and understanding and be literate about
world culture.
Art history is basically world history
but, it's told, if you will, through works
of art of ancient artifacts and
architecture. Applied Art is basically
the studio courses. They offer a number
of different classes: that's painting
beginning and intermediate, drawing
beginning and intermediate, printmaking,
it's figure drawing - where you get to
draw a model every week - which I really
particularly liked. I liked all my 
applied art classes but, figure drawing
is something kind of
classic and basic about it, as
fundamental for an art student of any
era. If someone decides to major in Art
History there are two tracks: there's
Museum Studies and Art History. And,
Museum Studies, of course, means that they
will be doing for work in the Museum and will
likely use their degree to work within that 
field. Whereas the art historical track
something more to do with education or
being a teacher and that sort of thing. I
kind of want to mix both and maybe do some
teaching but, also work in a museum. In one of my classes we got to go every week to a
different Museum and see the different
offices and how they were all
functioning - how they do their work
with conservation or with staging
exhibitions - and it was very, very
intriguing. I was able to participate in
two exhibitions that were staged here at the gallery - at the Berkowitz Gallery.
And, along with that there are two, I think, 
very wonderful
exhibition catalogs that I have an entry in.
I'm very proud of that. These experiences,
like working on exhibitions, they would
not have happened if I would have chosen
another major; and I'm very fortunate to
have picked it because I think they're
very unique experiences and I would have
had it any other way. The nice thing
about my major, Art History, is that we
get together, we have meetings for the
Art History Association and we hold events - we have certain film events. We
also go to certain museums. I've never yet
felt concerned that would find some work
in this field. I just - I've only
encountered the issue that maybe there
are a lot of choices. I don't see that
it's a - that it's really like a limiting
thing but, like something that what you
do you want to do with it because
there's so much you could do.
