Portfolio Day

Brianna Cravero
Portfolio Day Reflection
Portfolio Day

Last Sunday at national portfolio day, I was unprepared. There were so many students, most of them carrying artifacts of all sizes. The room was filled with colleges lined up and down at little white tables, some with big signs for their school, and others on regular printer paper.
Since I want to go to college for something like graphic or interactive design, I thought I would try a different perspective and have a little faith in my artwork see what colleges thought of my work. The first table I stopped at was PFA, I saw they had fine arts at their college for painting and sculpting, something I had an interest in learning about. The college representative told me that I was confused in my artwork and I was desperately crying for help. He also said that I needed work on more traditional artwork, not only to get into his college, but in general.
My spirit was broken but as time passes, his comment bothers me less and less because I have realized that there is not a scale that measures art as wrong or right. The next college I visited down and across the huge room was SFAIC, and the representative really liked my work, so I found myself in a confused emotional dilemma whether I should have disappointed about portfolio day, or feel good about it because I was ready to leave after waiting in lines for a total of two hours.
The experience was not a life changing one, but I will keep in mind the advice I received as well as the criticism. I find myself now confused as a portfolio student, and I feel as if I need to start at the bottom and work myself back up to the top in order to gain my confidence in my artwork again.