Ashcan Art Blog

The scholastic art awards offers recognition for students in 7th to12th grade, age 13 or older, in a number of visual arts categories including portfolio which is the only one for seniors only, which is what we’ll focus on in this post The Scholastic Art Awards Portfolio Guidelines, a category only open to students in 12th grade, are to submit a portfolio of 6 different art works. The work can come from one of the single categories or any combination of multiple categories.

You have a vision for the work you’d like to make, however, to draw, paint or sculpt portraits and figures proficiently or imaginatively, you need to learn basic skills first. Otherwise, you will try and try and in the end it will take you much longer to get your desired results. 

If you're interested in attending a BFA Fine Art Program it may be difficult to figure out which school is best for you. There are many great programs, and they each have different specialties, different facilities, and different curricula. At Ashcan we have students with a wide range of academic interests, and we have schools that we prefer for each major.

There are several Specialized art and design high schools in New York City, including the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, the the High School of Art & Design, LaGuardia High School , the High School of Fashion Industries and Gramercy Arts High School 

The MFA Lighting Design Program offered at Parsons, is one of our favorites. Many Ashcan portfolio prep students have successfully applied to the program. When you apply to any of these three programs Parsons requests that you submit the following two item for your Art Portfolio: