Portfolio Development Classes

Whether your child is preparing to attend a specialty visual arts program or you want to broaden their experience in a variety of art styles, our Portfolio classes accelerate their creative development, advance their creative skills and help them show off their new abilities!

They’ll enjoy feeling inspired as they learn with our specialist instructors. We’ll guide them to develop a variety of artwork projects that showcase their abilities across media types. And, if you’re applying to programs with specific portfolio requirements, the instructor will help support those projects and can also provide a letter of recommendation on request.

Portfolio Prep

Portfolio Prep is the perfect weekly class to advance your creative skills and helping you to show off your new abilities! If you’re getting ready to apply for a specialty visual arts program or simply love creating lots of different types of art, this is the class for you!

Each week, we will work on developing a mix of artworks that will showcase your abilities across different media.

Portfolio Club

Portfolio Builder mixed media class for teens in-studio Create Art Studio

Reward your creative child with the benefits of our full-year portfolio development program. To begin, from September to January, we’ll guide students to strengthen foundational techniques across a range of disciplines.

In February, we’ll create a collaborative group installation. We finish with our STAR project period from March to June, where students develop and present a curated body of amazing work that’s presented in their end of year Art Show.

Expand your creative knowledge

Build confidence in your ideas

Explore new creative techniques

Build an impressive portfolio

More class information
This class and program are perfect for students who:

Want to apply to visual arts specialized programs in high school, college or university

Will enjoy time off screens after school to decompress

Are looking for a supportive, social environment

Really, really, really love creating art!

What you’ll learn

Art essentials like colour theory, perspective and proportion

How to generate original ideas so your art stands out!

How to talk confidently about your art when responding to critique

What you’ll use

Drawing materials like pencils and pencil crayons

Painting supplies, brushes, palettes, acrylic or watercolour paints

Mixed media materials for collage, sculpting or printmaking

All materials are included – as always!

Elevate your child's creative Portfolio

If you’re enrolling for the first time, please click Register and create an account. Existing students can access our portal to add a class to your account. All classes are Eastern Time.