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We’re here to help you confidently navigate the Art School Admissions process

If you enroll in Ashcan’s Art Portfolio Prep Program our proven step by step process will get you into the Art School of your dreams. You can trust that our team will show you the way.

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OUR STUDENTS  

Ashcan Studio admits all students who have the goal of applying to a program where an art portfolio is required for admissions, such as an arts high school, or a Bachelors (BFA) or Masters (MFA) college program.

Students range from beginners to advanced. Anyone who wants to apply for art or design major can enroll at Ashcan and make a great portfolio to apply to the top art schools.

Students come to Ashcan and work together with the Instructors to discover their individual talent and what they’re best at, ultimately finding themselves making the artwork they always knew they could make.

Visual Arts Portfolio Preparation classes are each day, year round, Monday through Saturday from 11:00 am–3:00 pm and 4:00–8:00 pm for ages 11 and up.

We have classes in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Art Contest Prep, and more. Especially popular is our Summer Portfolio Prep Program. Please ask us anything! Contact us at infomanhattan@ashcanart.com or call 212-967-8101. Learn more at ashcanart.com and follow us at @ashcan.art.

Ashcan students apply to the schools of their dreams without fear of rejection. They get to feel secure and confident that their portfolio will get them where they want to go. 

AT ASHCAN ….YOU CAN

PORTFOLIO PREPARATION at ASHCAN STUDIO

OUR HISTORY

Ashcan Studio of Art was established in New York City in 2006 by artist Sun Young Kim. Mr. Kim began teaching at several different portfolio prep art studios, and found that none of them were structured in a way where the students were reaching their highest potential, or making the truly outstanding portfolios he knew they could. That’s when he decided to branch off on his own and opened Ashcan Studio.

Mr. Kim named the studio after a small group of renegade artists who, at the turn of the twentieth century, were the original rebels, the Ashcan Artists. He modeled Ashcan Studio of Art to follow their example in spirit, breaking the mold and forging new directions for the next generation of artists.

He knew that if young artists and designers pushed themselves to question what was conventional in art, and found their own unique vision the way the Ashcan Artists did, that their lives would change profoundly, that their educational goals would elevate, and great success in art and design would become attainable. Ashcan students, present and former, have proven that to be true with hundreds of prestigious art awards (like the Scholastic Awards) and thousands of acceptance letter to the top art schools and millions of dollars in scholarships.