Rollins College Department of Art and Art History, Studio Art Major
JUNIOR PORTFOLIO REVIEW
GUIDELINES
Enrollment in the capstone courses for the studio art major- ART440 Senior Studio and
ART 450 Senior Seminar- is contingent upon successful completion of the Junior
Portfolio Review.
This Junior Portfolio Review and the accompanying Senior Exhibition Proposal is
mandatory for all juniors and transfer students entering their junior year and will be held
annually during the spring semester of a student’s junior year.
All students must complete the following:
1.Create a Powerpoint for a presentation of your art to the committee. The
presentation should include 10 to 15 slides in total. (Can and should
include detail shots of 3D works or other detailed work, but should include
at least 10 separate pieces in total). All work shown should have been
completed since your arrival at Rollins.
2.The presentation should include a selection of your strongest work, with
at least one piece (preferably the last piece you show) that reflects the
intended theme of your senior research project (either in concept or
execution). Whenever possible, you should include work that indicates a
clear direction of individual development. Many final projects within Studio
Art courses offer a chance for you to develop your own ideas and content.
Utilizing these opportunities fully can prove beneficial to the later
development of a cohesive body of work for your Senior Exhibition.
3.Slides should be labeled with medium/support, date of creation and size
in inches (i.e : acrylic on panel, oil on canvas, charcoal on paper, gelatin1
silver print, archival pigment print, wood and plastic on board, wire and
fabric or other materials used, etc.).
4.During the presentation of your art to the committee you will be
expected to articulate the ideas behind your work, so please prepare in
advance with notes.
5.In addition to the slideshow, you should also bring your sketchbooks
and/or provide a link to an on-line visual journal or blog, which
demonstrates your artistic development and contains research material for
your work.
6.Senior Exhibition Proposal: Students must also complete the attached
proposal form in time for their Junior Portfolio Review.
7.Though your artwork will be presented as a Powerpoint presentation you
can also bring in a few actual pieces. Any works brought in must be
professionally presented. Sculpture Professor Josh Almond can provide
pedestals for sculptural works if given two weeks notice. Prints,
photographs, paintings and other two dimensional artworks should be
framed, matted or presented in a clean way that shows them to their best
advantage.
8.If, for example, you are undertaking a semester abroad and cannot be
present for the review, your PPT slides should be accompanied by
descriptive text indicating your rationale for including this piece in your
portfolio - what makes this work one of your strongest? How does it
relate to your potential future work? etc. This accompanying text should
be provided in a separate Word document titled List of Works, numbered
to correspond with the PPT slides.
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9. Presentations should be prepared as PowerPoint slideshows and
Proposals should be prepared as Word documents. The two files (Or 3 if
you are abroad) MUST be submitted via Dropbox no later than 5pm EST
one week before your review. You will receive an invitation to a shared
Dropbox folder one month before your review. Please contact your advisor
if you need help using Dropbox.
A faculty panel will review and critique the concept/theme, and give direction for further
research and exploration. A Review Record is kept in your Advisee File indicating
whether or not you have participated in the review, because of this, it is required that
you have a Studio Art Professor as your advisor.
Junior Timeline
Early Fall Semester
Spring Semester
What you need to know
What you need to do
Advisors assist in portfolio
Contact your advisor during
preparation through pre-
the first week of classes to set
arranged advising sessions.
up a time to meet.
Prepare to present your work Complete required files and
professionally to the
upload files to Dropbox.
committee and complete the Present your Junior Portfolio
Senior Exhibition Proposal.
PowerPoint to the panel. Full
details above.
Spring Semester
Successful completion of
Assessment form filled out by Junior Review allows your
committee, signed and
Follow up with your advisor
for feedback.
permission to enroll in ART
presented to student records. 440
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SENIOR EXHIBITION PROPOSAL
This proposal will help you generate ideas for your senior exhibition. It must be
completed in time for your junior portfolio review. Please take time to carefully
and thoughtfully respond to each and every prompt and/or question as you
work through this form. Feel free to ask your advisor or other studio faculty for
help along the way.
The Senior Exhibition
The capstone experience for the studio major is to create and exhibit your work
in the annual Senior Exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. To be
accepted into this exhibition, you must create a body of work that
demonstrates a high level of critical and creative thinking, builds on your
current knowledge of techniques and materials and involves an appropriate
level of mastery of one or more fine art media. No one is guaranteed
acceptance; a professional jurying process determines which students have
earned the right to display their work in the museum.
What is a body of work?
For an artist, a body of work is a grouping, installation or sometimes an entire
exhibition of work that explores a topic, related themes, concepts or ideas. The
individual pieces in a body of work are related to one another either through
similarities in one or more of these components:
a. subject matter
b. formal elements (color, shape, line, value, texture, etc.)
c. process/technique
d. content
Part One: The Role of the Artist and the Big Idea
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Individuals and societies must adapt and evolve to survive in a constantly
changing environment. Art plays an important role in that evolution. Artists
act as selective observers to call attention to overlooked aspects of the world
and find themselves playing different roles as communicators through their
work. Here are some examples of the different roles that artists play as they
communicate through their work:
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Artists document prevalent or important ideas, events and conflicts in
order to stimulate social and political activism.
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Artists explain concepts and events in terms of current thoughts and
values.
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Artists question current values, ethics, morals, and dominant social
behavior.
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Artists act as scientists to research open ended questions (what if?) and to
problem-solve (what now?).
·
Artists provide escape valves such as humor/irony to ease tension that
might otherwise find destructive outlets in society.
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Artists create images of beauty, mystery, and even horror in order to evoke
an emotional response from the viewer.
As an artist, what forms of communication interest you (humor, irony, activism,
beauty)? What BIG IDEAS do you want to communicate to your viewers
through your work? Type your response below.
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Part Two: What are your successes and passions? What
inspires you?
A. Spend some time thinking about the pieces you have created during the last
two years that you felt were very successful or for which you gained attention
from your peers or your professors. What was it about those particular works
that made them so strong and what did you enjoy about the process of
creating them? Which works (if any) contain certain ideas or techniques that
you might pursue in your senior year? Do you have a passion for making a
particular kind of work and if so, why?
Type your response below.
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B. Which contemporary works of art and artists inspire you most and why? Is it
the concepts in their work or the materials they use (or both) that you enjoy so
much? Paste some copies of their work into this document and give some
explanation of how their work affects your own art practice. Ask yourself if the
work of these artists might help you locate your own work within the larger
context of contemporary art. Type your response below.
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Part Three: Media and Imagery
How will you use the opportunity for dialogue that the senior exhibition
presents to communicate your ideas to viewers? What form will your ideas
take? Will you create paintings, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing
or some combination of these media? Which subject matter and processes will
best communicate your ideas? You should include some sketches or photos of
these images along with your typed response.
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Part Four: Imagining the Space and Placing the Viewer
Imagine you have a 10’ wide by 12” high white wall and/or a 10’ x 10’ x
10’ open floor space to use. How would your proposed work occupy this
space? Will you have large or small works? How many works do you see in this
space? How will the viewer interact with the images/objects? Are they life-size
or postage stamp-size? Does the viewer look up, look down or walk around to
see the work? Use this page to draw a diagram of the space and the objects as
you see them in your head and type up your ideas about the arrangement or
installation of the work.
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