art portfolios

Artist's work samples

Art portfolios are collections of an artist's work, assembled to demonstrate skill, range, and style.

Students compile portfolios for admission to art schools; working artists use them to seek gallery representation, commissions, or employment.

A portfolio may be physical—mounted work in a case—or digital.

Her portfolio showed everything from charcoal sketches to oil paintings.

Opposites
curation and intentionality

art portfoliosrough drafts

doodles · scrap pile · discard pile · outtakes · unfinished work

purpose and formality

art portfoliospersonal journals

Private written records

work-in-progress

curation and presentation

art portfoliosjunk drawers

Disorganized household storage spaces

Family

portfolio, arts, artsy, artist, artful, artless, artistic, artistry, artifice

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G