Every fall the Corcoran School of Art and Design - associated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, host a Art School Forum for students in the Washington D.C. area. Our high school is about 20 minutes from Washington, D.C. so our Art Department extends an invitation for these schools attending the forum to continue showcasing their programs at our high school, and then extends an invitation to other area high schools to attend.
That is just some of the material we collected from the forum this fall! The turn out is amazing - Art Institute of Chicago, Savannah College from Georgia, Pratt from NYC, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise from Los Angeles and Paris College of Art just to name a few!
The biggest nail biting moment is when your student is showing her portfolio to a representative from a school she greatly admires. The reps were all so great, encouraging and with helpful critiques. I was also pleased and impressed with how long they took with each students portfolio. The forum is well attended as you can imagine (which you will have too, I didn't take a picture as I didn't know I was going to write about this journey!) The kids waited in long lines, but were so respectful of the person in portfolio review process and gave that student a large buffer for privacy.
Actually, this link will get you as far as our Walt Whitman's Art Department web page. When I typed and clicked the link listed it took me to some strange place in Maryland. You don't want to go some strange place in Maryland. So, click on this trusty link above and scroll down to Fall Newsletter and there you will see the announcement for the Art School Forum. It's every fall and open to the public if you are interested!
You will also see a link on helping students with their portfolio's and pictures of our high schools annual Festival of the Arts - which will be in less than two weeks from now! This showcases our students art from the year and the final day is the Fashion Society's Fashion Show! More on that soon...
How many high school students bags have a tape measures in them?!
Pam
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