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Portfolio Review

Taught by Amelia Shull

Community Workshop: Open to all – no Duke affiliation required!

This two-hour workshop is designed to help you discover and strengthen your unique artistic style, also known as your “visual voice.” We’ll play with a variety of hands-on art-making experiments that will help you understand what makes your work special and where you can grow. You’ll take a fast-paced, joyful journey through the creative process from start to finish, from engaging in focused art-making to reflecting on your own work. This workshop is perfect for anyone who wants to reconnect with the joy of making art, spark a new practice, or prepare an art portfolio or artist statement for applications and grants.

If you would like, you can bring a few recent pieces of your own work (anything goes!) and photos of your work are fine. We’ll use them as a starting point to learn about your interests. By looking at your work, you’ll be able to identify your technical, compositional, and conceptual strengths. This will help us focus on what you’re passionate about so you can keep making art that truly feels like you. If you are ever interested in a Portfolio Review of a full set of artwork with Amelia, you can talk about options beyond this workshop.

Meet the Instructor

Amelia Shull

Amelia Shull is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and educator whose current practice centers on healing, mending, and creative reuse. Her most recent work explores various media and methods, including printmaking, …

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Duke Arts Create is a series of free, hands-on arts workshops designed to help all Duke students, including graduate and professional students (including Duke Health), as well as Duke faculty and staff develop a variety of creative skills in the visual arts, dance and movement, creative writing and more. Workshops are open to all skill levels and backgrounds. Most workshops are held in the Duke Arts Annex, the Rubenstein Arts Center or the Duke Arts Office 2101 and are typically held weeknights from 6-8 p.m.

Registration for the following week’s Duke Arts Create workshops go live on Friday morning at 9 a.m. – sign up in advance to guarantee your spot. Didn’t get a spot? No problem! We always reserve space for walk-ins and waitlist registers. Email DukeCreate@duke.edu if you have any questions. Sign up for the monthly newsletter here, which includes the full list of classes offered during the following month.

Duke Arts Create is sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts (Duke Arts).