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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has she gone to National Portfolio Days?
https://nationalportfolioday.org/schedule

You can get specific advice from colleges she's interested in about what they are looking for in a portfolio.  You bring your work/images of your work and they give you feedback on it.  Like, you should include more drawings, or this piece weakens your overall portfolio.

Has she done IB/AP art?

The portfolio she generates for that can be used as a solid art portfolio.

Universities and school districts sometimes have portfolio development classes in the summer (or online) where you get feedback on your work and targeted suggestions of types of work you need to improve your portfolio as well as lessons on photographing the work properly etc.

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Unfortunately many kids can't take IB/AP art until senior year, so they probably won't have enough pieces for a portfolio in time for applications. That said, an IB/AP art teacher is still a good resource for kids putting together a portfolio.

Look around at requirements for a couple of schools your child is interested in to see what the requirements are. Most DD looked at wanted 15-20 pieces and they each had preferences around what they wanted to see (sculpture in addition to 2D art for example, or pieces completed within the past year). That helped guide her as she was working on pieces. Your DC will definitely want to attend National Portfolio Days (there were some virtual ones last year) and many art schools also offered informal portfolio feedback sessions ahead of the deadlines.

Not sure if it's too late to apply, but VCU Arts has a great summer program where students attend classes for 2-3 weeks and work on assembling a portfolio. DD tried to do it twice and it was cancelled/switched to virtual both summers due to covid.[/quote]

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