WORKSHOP DETAILS
Date: Saturday, April 2 | 1:00 – 3:00pm
What: 15min one-on-one portfolio reviews
Where: NUMU, Los Gatos Civic Center, 106 E. Main Street, CA, 95030
Tickets: Free registration, spots are limited
Audience: Santa Clara County High School Teens
Check-in at NUMU’s front desk
Proof of up-to-date vaccination + masks required for all participants
In this portfolio review you will have 15 minutes to meet one-on-one with a CCA admission counselor and talk about your work. You are welcome to bring a laptop or tablet to share your portfolio digitally or bring sketchbooks or pieces that you can carry with you easily. Your portfolio should include your best and most recent work, but it can also include works in progress, sketchbooks, and first drafts. We recommend that you collect 5–15 pieces that show the range of your work. We are interested to learn about your process, methods, and thinking. Before the event, practice explaining how you develop your ideas, articulating where you want to go with those ideas, and sharing how you arrive at a completed work.
We encourage you to ask questions during the portfolio review and take this opportunity to learn about the process of applying to an art and design. Some sample questions are:
What is the artwork that you’re most excited about?
What is a portfolio and what should it look like?
Questions about how to focus on specific mediums such as film or writing.
Questions about individual works and what can be improved.
What should I include in my portfolio?
Questions about careers and college.
What to bring:
Bring artwork you want to showcase, either physically or digitally.
Bring a device such as a tablet or laptop to show your digital work, don’t just bring a phone.
Bring 10-15 artworks.
*If you’re early on in your journey you can bring 5-6 artworks.
Sketchbooks or other relevant supporting materials.
Can’t make the portfolio reviews today?
ABOUT THE COUNSELORS
Columbia Shafer (She/Her/Hers), CCA’s Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions, grew up in Forestville, a small town in Sonoma County and attended Occidental College, where she got her BA in Cognitive Science with an emphasis on the cognition of creativity. After a few years working in her alma mater’s admissions office, she is happy to be back in her native Bay Area. She appreciates CCA’s emphasis on social impact through the arts and design.
Henry Chambers (He/Him/His), CCA Admissions Counselor, is a Northern California native that achieved a dual MFA in Studio Art & MA in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2020. He continues to pursue his passions of painting, theoretical writing, and digital photography. Here, as an Admissions Counselor at CCA, he is excited to help guide new students as they begin their own unique artistic journey.
ACCESSIBILITY
NUMU strives to be an accessible organization by accommodating the needs of all our constituents. The museum's building is ADA compliant. Should you have any accessibility concerns please email or call us prior to your visit.
NUMU is proud to partner with CCA to provide professional development opportunities for emerging young artists as part of our ArtNow Exhibition.
NUMU's mission is to make programming accessible to all. Donations directly support the museum’s exhibitions and educational programs. Please contribute whatever you are able.
