Building Portfolios
Your portfolio represents your work to exhibition spaces and customers--it's worth the effort it takes to build and maintain a good one. Here's some advice about how to think about and construct a portfolio that does justice to your work.
Creating a Professional Portfolio
A former gallery director recommends dos and don'ts for artists' portfolios. From NYFA Interative, courtesy Abigail Rebecca Cohen Library.
A good overall how-to on assembling a portfolio. Note: Artist-support.com, which hosts this article, is a commercial site dedicated to art photography, but the advice is broadly applicable. Also, you'll be pitched for some books and services.
Dr. Art on Developing Your Artist Portfolio
Ask Dr. Art is a regular feature on the New York Foundation for the Arts Web site. In this article, Dr. Art (a.k.a. Matthew Deleget) addresses a question about artist portfolios.
Preparing Your Art School Portfolio
A brief overview of what art schools at the undergraduate and graduate levels look for in applicants' portfolios. At the NYFA site.
A former museum curator offers some common-sense tips that might not occur to the average artist. From Arts Resource Network, by Vicki Halper, an independent curator.
Tips On How To Successfully Photograph Your Own Artwork - A Last Resort
If you can't affort to hire a professional to photograph your work, this article gives some advice about how to do it yourself.
Proper Care and Labeling for Slides
Slides not only constitute your portfolio. When you sell a piece, a slide is what you have left. So it's important to properly archive and care for them. At the Artistsregister.com, by Steve Meltzer.
Slide Labeling: Recommended Conventions
The fundamentals of tagging slides of your work, from the College Art Association. Very good, specific guidelines.
Your Secret Weapon: The Artists Statement as a Marketing Tool
From ArtistsRegister.com, this article provides a good primer on the why the artist's statement is important and how to go about crafting one.