Portfolio Preparation

Sylvia Vigliani

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Students will continue with the Advanced Studio program to develop a comprehensive portfolio for applying to art schools and colleges. Through a two year sequence of alternating projects, each student enrolled in *Advanced Studio* and *Portfolio Preparation* will complete a substantial body of work for his/her portfolio. Students wishing to finalize their college portfolio in Art may do so in their senior year with Portfolio Preparation, or the more rigorous AP course. The instructor will assist with photographing all artwork and preparing materials for college applications . In addition to the regular classroom instruction, *Advanced Art and Portfolio Preparation* students will benefit from the Lincoln Center Institute program and visiting artists in the classroom. Students are required to keep a research journal, and must present an exit portfolio for course credit. They are also expected to visit museums/galleries and write follow-up critiques on selected art works.

CALENDAR

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Student Gallery

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Research Journals

Research Journal Examples

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Creative Thinking

The following attitudes and activities seem to be necessary for creative thinking, and have been observed in all truly creative people regardless of profession.

Training and practice of right brain functions
Suspension of judgment; making disconnected jumps in thinking
Openness to new stimuli, new ideas, new attitudes, new approaches
Willingness to take risks; making "leaps of faith", lessening inhibitions
Freedom in subjective thinking; expression of emotions and personal realities
Intuitiveness, "playing hunches" to generate spontaneous ideas
Freedom to make outlandish responses; rejecting fear of being "wrong" or unconventional
Rejecting destructive criticism, prejudices, indiscriminate praise
A childlike attitude of creative play; tinkering with ideas, materials, structures, a "fun" attitude toward experimentation
Freedom to fantasize, unconventional imagining
Divergent thinking: simultaneous processing of ideas, fluency of ideas
Acceptance of non-ordinary realities, contradictions; ability to tolerate and manipulate puzzles, ambiguities