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Schedule

11:00am

Portfolio review sign-in begins. Advance registration is not required.
Please register at the table in front of the Fine Arts Building, 1000 West Broad Street. You will not be allowed entrance into the Fine Arts Building until reviews begin at 12:00pm. If rain is in the forecast, you may want to bring an umbrella.

12:00pm – 4:00pm

Portfolio Reviews by College Representatives
Fine Arts Building, 1000 West Broad Street
Bring your portfolio and work and meet with representatives from some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities. You will receive counseling on the strengths that they see in your work. The purpose of a portfolio review is to guide and encourage your development as an artist and to offer information about the programs of study available at the participating institutions. Students, parents, and teachers are invited to attend.

VCUarts also hosts an Open House on November 7, 2009.

Please note that although registration is not required for National Portfolio Day, it IS required for Open House. Register for Open House here. The full Open House schedule is as follows:

7:30 - 8:45am Check in at VCU's Stuart C. Siegel Center, 1200 W. Broad St.
9:00 University Welcome
10:00 VCUarts Overview
10:30 - 11am Department Presentations
10:30 - 11:45 Tour of facilities
11:00 - 11:45 Art Foundation Question & Answer Session
12:00 - 4:00 National Portfolio Day portfolio reviews

Representatives from the following schools will review work at National Portfolio Days on November 7:

Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
FIDM/The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Encino, CA
Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA
The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Delaware College of Art & Design, Wilmington, DE
Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
School of the Art Institute of Chicag,o Chicago, IL
Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, NY
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Old, Lyme, CT
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN
The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Purchase College, SUNY: School of Art & Design, Purchase, NY
Parsons Paris School of Art & Design, Paris France
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
VCUarts, Richmond, VA

For more information contact the Dean’s Office, School of the Arts:

Virginia Commonwealth University
325 North Harrison Street
Richmond, VA 23284-2519
arts@vcu.edu
(866) 534-3201 (toll free)
(804) VCU-ARTS / (804) 828-2787