Posts Tagged ‘Portfolio’

Art Portfolio

December 29th, 2009

The Saatchi Gallery online portfolio is a special resource provided to schools at the primary and high levels that are interested in boosting the confidence and promoting the talents of their artistically inclined students. The art teacher or the school’s artistic representative is given the opportunity to create detailed profiles for their schools and thereby to promote the artistic endeavours of the school as evidence of the school’s diverse educational curriculum. Along with the school’s profile, the portfolio allows institution representatives to call attention to the work of its talented students by uploading samples of these works along with biographical profiles of the students responsible for the pieces. The institutions are also encouraged to upload notices and descriptions of upcoming and past artistic events that demonstrate the school’s commitment to the arts. The Saatchi Portfolio is therefore a strong marketing tool that promotes the educational institution on a grand artistic scale.

However, the Saatchi Gallery goes further to promote and encourage the talent of these young and promising artists. It puts on regular competitions that generate prizes of great value to the future career of these individuals. Winners and runners up are given cash for use in purchasing art supplies, including computers, to enhance their potential as artists. The winning schools are also given monetary compensation to be used to equip their art departments, making them more conducive to the learning and practice of art. The Saatchi portfolio resource is performed as a community service gesture whose purpose is to return benefits to the institutions that gave many successful artists support in the past. The Portfolio also exists to secure the future of art by encouraging the youth in artistic endeavours.

Art Schools and Colleges Portfolio at Saatchi Gallery

December 27th, 2009

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.