PortfolioWorks provides private, targeted art teaching and portfolio coaching to students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in art, architecture, fashion, animation, illustration, film, design or drama.
Our story
Founders Maggie Cardelùs and Allison Blumenthal started PortfolioWorks in 2019 after noticing that many students creating their art, architecture, fashion, and other portfolios lacked the support they needed.
As practicing artists, they 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.
Young artists benefit from their guidance with five essential ingredients to growing as an artist:
- insightful and actionable feedback on their work 
- productive discussion about their ideas 
- assignments and readings geared specifically to their interests 
- support with material choices and techniques 
- great advice on how to build a stand-out portfolio 
PortfolioWorks provides an array of services that can help you-  one-on-one counseling, portfolio reviews with detailed recommendations and feedback, and short or long-term packages, all over video. 
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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 Carnegie Mellon Columbus College Marist College California College of Art University of Toronto Concordia 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) The University of Cambridge (Architecture and Design) 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, Foundation and BA Oxford Brookes University (Arch) Kent University (BA and Arch) 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 London Kingston University London Middlesex University London Bath Spa University Loughborough University Newcastle Universtiy University of Leeds University of Plymouth 
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      Institut Français de la Mode Gobelins Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam Fashion Institute Willem de Kooning Academie ESMOD Marangoni Fashion Institute IE School of Architecture and Design (Madrid) Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) 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 Atelier de Sèvres Gaming Campus 
 
            