Concentration (Second Year) Review

All Art & Design majors are required to participate in review sessions. The second review, called the Concentration Review, is conducted at the end of your second year as an Art & Design major. It allows faculty to evaluate your progress in your specific area of concentration. You will be expected to demonstrate that you are beginning to narrow your focus and are showing aptitude and commitment within a specific art & design field.

Make Your Appointment

  • Graphic Design: see Canvas course (below)
  • Fine Art: Painting, Sculpture, and Art Education (you will receive an appointment time via email)
  • Interior Architecture and Design

Graphic Design Concentration Review

  • This review is for those with concentrations in Graphic Design and Graphic Design/Advertising.
  • For details and requirements please visit the Canvas course created for your review. If you are not enrolled in the course please contact the Art & Design administrative coordinator. 

Interior Architecture and Design Concentration Review

  • This review is for those with concentrations in Interior Architecture and Design
  • For details and requirements please visit the Canvas course created for your review. If you are not enrolled in the course please contact the Art & Design administrative coordinator. 

Fine Art Concentration Review

This review is for those with concentrations in Painting,  Sculpture, and Art Education.

The items below must be organized neatly within a Google Slide document ready to be presented at your review meeting. Please share the completed Portfolio with Professor Robert Green (greenr@acu.edu).

Sample Template
Here is a link to a sample portfolio template. Open the presentation template with Google Docs. Once there, click on “File” and then “Make a copy…”

1) Include a Résumé after your Title page (all concentrations)
Your résumé must include but is not limited to:

  • art experiences
  • work experience (all work experience is appropriate)
  • computer software experience or skills
  • extra-curricular activities (sports, clubs, etc.)
  • significant interests and/or volunteerism

Immediately following your résumé on separate pages include:

  • a list of all art event credits submitted
  • identify art competitions you have entered, especially the Annual Student Competition, the names of piece or pieces entered in the competitions, and the results (e.g. works that got in, awards)

2) Examples of Artwork

See the guidelines below:

Important Instructions for the Presentation

  • If your work is already in digital format you can often import it directly into the presentation software.
  • Scan artwork when size allows, thus avoiding camera lens distortion of edges. (please watch this video tutorial on scanning)
  • Photos of your work should be as large as possible and in focus. One image per slide. Plan to include multiple views of 3D pieces, but do so on subsequent pages (three views of the same sculpture each on its own page). If you want to show a detail (close-up) of a 2D work, again use a subsequent page. Photograph your work in bright, even light to avoid glare or reflection (please watch this video tutorial on photographing work).
  • Simple adjustments to contrast, brightness, and cropping are expected where appropriate (please watch this video tutorial on editing images).
  • A minimum of 12 finished works should be included, ones not shown in your first-year review. At least 5 of these works must be within your area of concentration, Painting or Sculpture.
  • Presentation backgrounds should be solid black or white without elements that distract from your work or labeling Your work is the star, not the background.

Come prepared to talk about the following issues:

  • What inspires you? What artists inspire you? What you are passionate about?
  • Your anticipated career path (e.g. graduate school, gallery sales, literally whatever you imagine doing with your degree)
  • What, if anything, you do outside of our academic program toward that career
  • The formal, aesthetic, and conceptual choices behind one of the works in this portfolio, preferably one of your best
  • Your strengths and weaknesses as an artist and/or art student
  • Your impressions about our program and specifically how you could improve your engagement with our program