Dear Admissions Officer Amy Adams: 
 
It is with great pleasure that I am writing this letter of recommendation for Susie 
Student. In the past four years, I have taught Susie in a number of visual arts 
courses in all of which she has excelled. Based on my experience with Susie, I 
can say without the shadow of a doubt that she is one of the most naturally 
talented and hardworking art students with whom I have had the opportunity to 
work. She is exceptionally well prepared to move onto the collegiate level, and it 
is clear to me that she has a very bright future in the creative arts. 
 
Susie is very mature for her age and she approaches her art with an astute sense of 
objectivity. She processes constructive criticism well and is always willing to go 
the extra mile in order to take her work to the highest level of formal and 
conceptual refinement. Susie has a very methodical creative process; she develops 
her concepts thoughtfully, creates interesting exploratory sketches, and builds 
meticulous scale models before she commits herself, with confidence, to the 
fabrication process. Once Susie begins fabrication, she works with precision and 
purpose. Her skills of craftsmanship are highly developed and she has an 
incredibly astute attention to detail. In 
addition,
 I have been impressed by Susie’s 
ability to couple her attention to detail with a broader stylistic focus that allows 
her to consider how effectively her compositions function as a whole. Therein, 
Susie creates sculptures that are cohesive in form and eloquent in their 
communication of sophisticated concepts. All in all, Susie is an incredibly well 
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