Buttoning Up a Fashion School with Mimi: National Portfolio Day is Here

NATIONAL PORTFOLIO DAY WITH MIMI!

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We've been looking forward to this for a long time! National Portfolio Day is held all across the county from California to Maine and all in between. Please see post from September 12, 2014 for more details.

For us, it's held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art sponsored by the Corcoran School of Art. The following day (today, actually) it will be held and sponsored by

Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore Maryland - a fabulous art school, but no fashion programs.

The line started before the doors opened at 10:00 am and it was cold but otherwise a beautiful day.

Being in downtown Washington DC on a quiet Saturday is always a treat. Politics, an abondance of lawyers and White House crashers aside, we are lucky to live here.

Portfolios carried were large and small - one student even brought a sculpture he made! The whole atmosphere was wonderful!

Everyone has the same purpose, fears and pride. It was the biggest room of like minded people I have ever seen! Each student has something to prove and is getting a chance to do so. The place was warm and inviting but electrifying!

It turns out the museum is undergoing some renovations so there wasn't any exhibits to juggle with the schools set ups - there were even three schools utilizing the gift shop! We walked around to get a feel of the place and to figure out where we needed to visit, not MICA for example.

Our first stop was to talk to Peggy representing the Paris College of Art. She and Mimi have formed a very nice relationship and she remembers Mimi from when the school visited her high school, nice! Her reviews on Mimi's work were helpful. Too bad she's not on the admissions team! Mimi will still need to have an interview via "Skype". Peggy did confirm housing in the city with me - options from high end real estate to cheaper options 45 mins travel away from the school. Please visit my post on PCA June 10 2014.

Mimi had alerted both Fashion Institute of Design from Los Angeles, CA and School of the Art Institute of Chicago she would be here today - these portfolio reviews count toward an interview - with the option for a "Skype" interview later. See posts from June 21, 2014 and June 27, 2014 for more information on those schools

You artists amaze me!

To carry your hard work, your heart and soul on a page or canvas and to open it up for someone to judge and critique is truly special.

Mimi got to spend a good amount of time with each of the schools she needed to visit. I stayed back, this is her time. No exhibits to busy myself but the students art work I peeked at was brilliant!

The Corcoran has some art left up - and I liked these lamps!

So happy to get this milestone done!

We left the Corcoran and went to lunch so we could relax, refuel and she could fill me in on how the critique's went.

I am happy to report - she is happy! She has one fashion line based on a piece of classic literature and one school recommended she put text in her sketches. I said "like a statement piece!" Ha Ha!

Many years ago, she made doll clothes out of newspapers while watching "Project Runway" - too bad she didn't