Saatchi Gallery presents the gallery portfolio, an online application through which students at the primary and the high school levels have the chance to display their work in an environment that will grant them the exposure they need to encourage future artistic endeavours. With this application, teachers or other representatives of the school create a profile for their respective institutions, and these profiles give the schools an opportunity to promote and attract visitors to their physical school premises or to their school’s own art website. Most importantly, the institution’s art department is featured via the presentation of the works of its most talented students.
The students’ works are uploaded along with student profiles and descriptions of the work itself. Descriptions of the school’s artistic achievements and events are also facilitated on their very own page. In addition, the Saatchi Gallery goes to great lengths to encourage these schools and their art students, through the regular hosting of competitions that grant monetary compensation. These rewards are used to equip the art departments of schools whose students show great promise in the visual and/or performing arts. The competitions also endow the winning and runner-up students with funds to facilitate their own artistic efforts.
The Saatchi Portfolio is a valuable resource that grants artistic exposure and benefits to these primary and secondary educational institutions and their students, and even gives some of these young individuals the chance to see their work on physical display at the Saatchi Gallery. Uploading the artwork of the students at your school could grant your department a significant boost in enrolment and student interest. Participating in the Portfolio aspect of Saatchi’s artistic outreach has favourable and tangible benefits that can place the young artistically inclined person on the right track toward a prosperous and fulfilling career in the visual arts.
