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

 
 

  • 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

  • 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, 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

  • 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 (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