About us
PortfolioWorks provides private, targeted art teaching and counseling to students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in art, architecture, fashion, animation, illustration, film, design or drama.
To have an outstanding portfolio, you need outstanding work.
We founded PortfolioWorks because we see the education of young artists as part of our mission as artists.
We wanted to create a way to provide young artists with the experienced mentorship that every artist needs in order to do the deep, introspective, self-risking work that results in authenticity, confidence and an understanding of the value of what they do.
We remember how difficult it was, as young artists, to find four essential ingredients to growing as an artist: insightful and actionable feedback on our work; productive discussion about our ideas; tasks and readings geared specifically to our interests; and good advice on how to build a stand-out portfolio. We created PortfolioWorks to fill this need, and to provide a place for young artists to turn for help with the process, both internal and technical, of becoming an artist.
If you are a young artist or have a child who loves making art, films, animation, fashion, design, drama, or architecture, and are faced with the challenge of making an outstanding admissions portfolio, we can and want to help.
Our goal is not only to help our students get into a good program, but the one that best suits their personalities, interests, and needs.
We pride ourselves on the wise and caring support that we offer to families and students coming from a wide range of academic and personal backgrounds.
Project proposed in the portfolio of a Masters candidate accepted and attending Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).
Project from a student accepted and studying Fine Arts at Parsons, NY
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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Pratt Institute
Parsons School of Design NY
Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Columbia University
Brown University
Yale University
University of Chicago
New York University
Bard College
Boston College
Boston University
Syracuse College of Art
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Bennington College
Otis College of Art and Design
Ringling College of Art and Design
Yale School of Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Cornell Architecture, Art and Planning
University of Southern California
Northeastern University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
The School of Visual Arts (SVA)
University of Michigan
Emerson College
Drexel University
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Central Saint Martins (Foundation, BA Arch)
Camberwell College of Arts (Foundation)
Royal College of Art London (Visual Communications MA and Cont. Art Practice MA)
Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts (Foundation)
Goldsmiths- University of London
Chelsea College of Art
Glasgow School of Art
London College of Communication
UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture
Architecture Association School of Architecture
Oxford Brookes University (Arch)
Kent University (Arch)
University College of London
University of Edinburgh School of Architecture (ESALA)
University of Manchester School of Architecture
University of Westminster School of the Arts
Falmouth University
London College of Fashion
Norwich University of the Arts
University of Portsmouth
UWE Bristol
Arts University Bournemouth
Istituto Marangoni
Kingston University London
Middlesex University London
Bath Spa University
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Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Amsterdam Fashion Institute
Willem de Kooning Academie
Marangoni Fashion Institute
IE School of Architecture and Design (Madrid)
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL)
Parsons Paris
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville
Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Normandie (ENSAN, Rouen)
Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE)
L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISAA)
The American University of Paris