College Art Portfolio Program

Get into your dream Art College.

For the past 30 years, the PMAI College Portfolio Art Program has helped students get accepted into top U.S. art colleges including Parsons, Pratt, Brown, Gnomon, Stanford, and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and more with a 99% success rate.

It is designed to get you admitted to any college where you would like to study art, design, architecture, fashion, or any other visual art. It is up to a year-long program that is targeted to meet and often exceed college application requirements.

In our College Portfolio Program, you will:

• Develop your painting and drawing skills to professional levels (no art experience required to join)
• Get personalized coaching in intimate class sizes
• Create an art portfolio that will be curated for each art college that you are applying to
• Craft your artist statement with professional guidance
• Receive a Letter of Recommendation from our art teachers
• Have access to a support network that is committed to your artistic success

Improve your techniques and improve your chances

You’ll build a solid foundation in drawing, painting, and conceptual thinking. The program consists of a number of classes and courses designed to expand your breadth as an artist. You’ll enjoy experimenting with all mediums in your drawing, painting, and mixed media creations. You’ll practice contemporary applications in your art using charcoal, graphite, pastels, pen and ink, conté crayon, acrylic paint, oil paint, tempera paint, watercolors, and collage. How you use these mediums is endless and you’ll learn the techniques to be able to manipulate them to satisfy your personal style.

Our goal is to help you achieve your dreams, and we’ve been successfully helping students get into their top schools for the past 30 years with an unprecedented 99% acceptance success rate.

The actual rate is 100%, and the reason we put 99% is because not every student got into their top #1 school of choice, but every student indeed got accepted to at least one of the schools they applied to.

The full body of work that students create at Prima Materia will cover an entire studio! This is how portfolios are curated when submissions are due.

How it works

Once accepted into the Portfolio Program, you can start taking classes right away. Our Program is rolling enrollment and begins with your first class. Because there are different classes to choose from, we will help by establishing personalized objectives based on your needs.

• Schedule your initial consultation with our team. This is your opportunity to see if the College Portfolio Program is right for you.
• During your orientation meeting with one of our instructors, we will discuss which classes and courses are best for you.
• For the first half of the Portfolio Program, you’ll focus on skill-building. This is important because art colleges expect you to already have a specific level of expertise.
• The second half of the Portfolio Program will be devoted to creating your art portfolio. This is the most exciting part because this is where your personal artistic transformation will occur.
• Throughout the art program, you’ll have access to our teachers during class and after class, as well as in regularly scheduled critique meetings. You can show the instructor completed works for feedback or works-in-progress that you’re struggling with.
• Based on your college application deadlines, the instructors will help you curate a personal collection of your best art pieces for each school. We will assist in any conceptual requirements, creation of your artist statement, and in titling your artworks. You will receive a Letter of Recommendation from your art instructor.
• Finally, what you’ve been working towards! You can now choose from the many schools that have offered you a spot in their program.