In-person workshops and coaching in Los Angeles
PortfolioWorks specialists Jill Spector and Olivia Booth provide in-person coaching in Los Angeles. Both are talented artists and educators who can support students with traditional packages or periodic workshops using PortfolioWorks’ teaching model. In addition to our classic package support, students benefit from hands on support in the studio.
Los Angeles Team
Jill Spector
Jill Spector is an artist and art worker whose practice encompasses artmaking, performance, design, teaching, consulting, and collaboration. Her background blends performance and sculpture, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and is the foundation for her consultancy, In Favor Of. Recent collaborations include costumes for Emily Mast’s performance IFIF at Arta Sperto in Geneva, pedestal gowns for Bari Ziperstein’s installation Variations on a Sample at LAMAG , and Love Flags with Alexandra Grant for feMMMes: a happening at LA State Historic Park. Spector’s sculptures and collages were part of Made in L.A. 2012 at the Hammer Museum. Her work has been included in the exhibitions Biomorphic Forms In Sculpture at the Kunsthaus Graz and Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils…, an exhibition organized by artist Diana Thater, at the Pinakothek der Moderne and Nationaltheater in Munich, Germany. Jill Spector’s photography has been featured in publications including Valeria Napoleone’s Catalog of Exquisite Recipes, and SchindlerLab.org published by the MAK Center. Following this project, Spector created The Editor’s President: Models and Mock-Ups for Elaine May, Nora Kaye, and Eileen Gray, an installation at JOAN in Los Angeles. Jill Spector and artist Bret Nicely founded TARP, a series of performances and installations in and around their empty swimming pool in Altadena, California. Spector also formed Designing Women, a conversation series by women who own and operate businesses in art and design.
In 2021, Jill Spector and artist Julie Weitz co-founded Tzitzit Project - a community-based initiative focused on expanding Jewish spiritual practice via an inclusive design approach to a traditional ritual garment—the tallit katan, nourishing queer, trans, and feminist reclamations of the wearing of tzitzit that honor a wide variety of bodies, gender identities, and self-expressions within diverse Jewish communities.
Jill Spector was named one of the Orange County Contemporary Collectors 2013 Fellowship Artists and in 2019 awarded an Inquiry Fellowship from American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA. Her works are included in the Zabludowicz Collection, London, the Kunsthaus Graz, and The Museum of Modern Art. Jill is an alumna of the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts (BFA 1998) and the Graduate Art Program at Art Center College of Design (MFA 2005).
Jill Spector is the coordinator for Syracuse University’s Turner Semester Residency Program in Los Angeles, a career development fellowship designed specifically for MFA Graduate Students to develop and employ essential professional practices in the arts.
Olivia Booth
Olivia Booth has been making art and teaching in Los Angeles since moving from New York City over 20 years ago. Her art practice plays the spectrum between transparency and opacity, and she’s particularly focused on how glass frames individual and collective self-reflection. She is a recent recipient of the COLA-IMAP Grant 2024 from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Hopper Prize. She has exhibited at the Neutra VDL House, Monte Vista Projects and Irenic Projects, LA, UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, Goldfinch Gallery in Chicago, and Pilchuck Gallery in Seattle. Her work has also been shown at non-profit spaces like Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, SculptureCenter, The Finley Gallery and The Schindler House, and has been written about in Art Forum and the New York Times. She dedicates a major portion of her life to teaching college art classes, drawing in particular. She holds an MFA from Art Center College of Design and a BFA and BA from Cornell University.