About Your 投资组合

Prospective students majoring in Studio Art (BA) or Graphic Design (BFA) — must submit a portfolio as part of the application process. We use the portfolio to determine whether or not potential students are a good fit for our program and ready to tackle college-level art and design classes. We d啊,不 use the portfolio as a tool to help choose one student over another, nor do we have a predetermined number of students we accept each year. Our philosophy is open-minded and when we review portfolios we aren’t overly concerned with where your work is right now, but rather where it (and you) can go. We want to work with capable and motivated students, and challenge them to become better than they ever thought possible.

WHEN TO SUBMIT: Our priority deadline for portfolio submission is 3月15日 — but we welcome earlier submission at any point after your formal acceptance to the university. This deadline guarantees that your portfolio will be reviewed and decided on before April 1 — a full month before the deposit deadline. 投资组合s that are submitted after 3月15日 will be reviewed on a rolling basis as space in the department permits.

If you have any questions about the status of your portfolio or the requirements in general, please email department chair Amanda Lenig at leniga@businessflowerdelivery.com.


Guidelines for Preparing Your 投资组合

  • Include 8–10 pieces of your best current work.

  • Please create clear, high-resolution digital images of physical work.

  • 工作 have to be from high school art or graphic design courses. If you haven’t taken a lot of these courses, don’t worry! Neither have many of the world’s best artists and graphic designers. Send us what you have — especially those amazing personal projects sketched on the back of your chemistry notebook!

  • Graphic Design and Studio Art portfolios must contain at least four drawings or paintings.

  • Photography portfolios must contain at least two drawings or paintings.

  • Exercise caution if submitting work from high school graphic design classes or from yearbook. A few pieces are fine, but don’t submit a portfolio composed primarily of, 例如, Photoshop exercises or yearbook layouts. We d啊,不 expect you to know how to be a graphic designer already… or even how to use the software.

  • submit work in only one medium, unless it is painting or drawing.

  • submit original artwork. 投资组合s will not be returned.

Submitting Your 投资组合

River Hawk 入学s Portal

一旦你申请, and are accepted to Susquehanna University, you will be given access to your River Hawk Portal. 在那里, you will find a copy of these instructions, a sample portfolio and have the ability to upload your own portfolio.

Acceptable submission formats include:

  1. A working URL to a personal portfolio website (Behance 例如 — but all platforms are acceptable)
  2. Upload individual images to Dropbox
  3. A single PDF file

Upload to River Hawk Portal