October is "Portfolio Month" and is an opportunity for high school students to submit their art portfolios for review. There are many sites throughout the United States and we are fortunate to have an awesome site here, in the Kansas City Art Institute!
Each year I gather up a handful of scholars and we go over to KCAI and visit the college representatives that attend. Each year there are about 30 different colleges, universities and art institutes from all over the U.S. that show up to review and critique the student art portfolios.
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| Tons of students from all over the Midwest - and this is just one of the eleven rooms! |
This is my 6th year of attending with students and I am always awed at the wonderful work that is being created by high school students from all over the Midwest. It gets my creative juices flowing and gives me new ideas for future projects.
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| Thank you Ms. Kim for taking us on the awesome tour! |
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| On tour |
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| Waiting for California |
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| Mr. Lunn visiting with a California Visual Art Rep. |
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| KCAI Self-Portraits |
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| The lone scholar who was not afraid of the arachnid. |
Once again, the artwork we submitted recieved wonderful reviews and we were reminded that the focus of high school students work should be on observational drawings (looking at the real thing and drawing from it rather than just from imagination or from magazines and the internet), exploring various media (art materials) and not just relying on pencil drawings, and being willing to try new things and fail. Much can be learned from falling down. Mistakes are educational too.
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