PortfolioWorks provides private, targeted art teaching and portfolio coaching to students interested in 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.
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