Successful Art Portfolio SAIC SMFA SVA RISD PRATT 20+ Admissions
Parker Lily Tuson-Morse https://www.parkerlily.com/ @parkerlilytm
discusses her successful portfolio that helped her be accepted into 23 of the top post-secondary art programs in Canada, America, and Europe.
Parker Lily graduated from Etobicoke School of the Arts in 2019 and attends The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, USA.
Parker Lily applied to schools including Otis College of Art and Design, Pacific Northwest College, Pratt Institute, California College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Arts Centre College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Paris College of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts New York, OCADU, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, University of British Columbia, Syracuse University, Parsons School of Design, Emily Carr University, Columbia College Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Guelph, College for Creative Studies, Columbus College of Art and Design, California College of Art, New Hampshire Art Institute, Concordia University, Kansas City Art Institute, The Glasgow School of Art, Chelsea College of Art UAL.
We are a small high school art department in the suburbs of Toronto Canada. A powerful community that works together to create a safe space and positive understanding of the world in order to create and make the most of amazing local, national, and international opportunities.
We changed our name to Contemporary Art a few years ago to reflect the diversity of interest and output of our community members. We do not follow a traditional approach to learning the same specific techniques and art history that is still common around the world, but help everyone to discover what it is that they are good at and like to do and help them become an expert at that thing or those things. This requires a great deal of trust and risk taking, honesty and perseverance. The process allows us to practice the sorts of skill sets normally discussed with corporate leaders - comfort with ambiguity, creativity, clarity, vulnerability, collaboration, working effectively with a variety of teams on each aspect of a project, ability to identify and make use of patterns, relationship building, empathy, risk taking, transformative mindset and a willingness to take part in the evolution of our program by explaining to others when something is learned or understood so that we can include it in both our common knowledge and within our curriculum.
We regularly participate in exhibitions, with as many as 230 in a year, in countries in Europe, the US and Canada. Our students have shown at Saatchi Gallery in London UK, the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo NY, and dozens of commercial and community galleries around the world.
We are perhaps best known for Portfolio Day, which has generated at time of writing more than $110 Million Dollars CDN in scholarship offers to our grade 12 students. Portfolio Day at ESACA may be the largest portfolio event of its kind in history, with up to 150 post-secondary school representatives participating in a day long process where as many as 85 of our schools' grade twelve students install curated solo exhibitions throughout the first floor of our school. We have had more than four thousand visitors - members of the public, collectors, gallery owners, press, family and friends join us in the evening to see the show, which includes several thousand art works.
Please consider donating and support our small high school art program and our amazing and brave and talented young art students with their portfolio development and art school and art world dreams. Our annual school art department budget is $7000 with our department being responsible for several hundred students at a time - meaning that we are given about $10 per student per class per year. The remainder of our funds are acquired from private donations and we require them to continue. You can donate and receive a Canadian tax receipt here: https://tdsb.schoolcashonline.com/Fee...
We also sell some of our grade 12 student work on our website year round but new work added every June www.contemporaryartcommunity.com
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