Breadth Portfolio
BREADTH: A body of work displaying a range of approaches to different visual problems.

What makes a Breadth Portfolio?

BREADTH IS ABOUT SHOWING DIFFERENCE, VARIETY, AND RANGE WITH TECHNICAL SKILL.
  • VARIETY OF MEDIA
The artist displayed skill in more than one medium.
  • 2D DESIGN: drawing, printmaking, acrylic, watercolor, photography, collage, etc. 
  • 3D DESIGN: wood, metal, clay, paper, plastic, fiber, digital, installation, discrete object, etc.
  • ​DRAW: charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic, watercolor, printmaking, collage, etc.
  • VARIETY OF SPATIAL DEPTH
Shallow, flat compositions are offset by deep, dramatic works.
  • STYLISTIC DIFFERENCES
The portfolio includes a range of visual styles.
  • Abstraction, Non-representation, Graphic and Flat, Volumetric with Value, Cubism, Hyper-realism, Illustration, Modernism, Communication Design,  etc.
  • VARIETY OF SUBJECT MATTER
The portfolio contains work with a range of subject matter.
  • EXAMPLES: portraiture (object, animal, person, etc.), landscape, architecture, technical information, emotional manipulation, etc. 
  • VARIETY OF VANTAGE POINTS
The portfolio contains compositions with dramatically different formal structures, including the implied (or actual) point of the view of the viewer upon the subject matter
  • Low Angle, Straight On, High Angle.
  • VARIETY OF COLOR SCHEMES
The portfolio displays the artist's ability to use a range of color schemes.
  • Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary, etc.

2D Design

  • UNITY
  • VARIETY
  • RHYTHM
  • PROPORTION
  • SCALE
  • BALANCE
  • EMPHASIS
  • CONTRAST
  • REPETITION
  • FIGURE / GROUND RELATIONSHIP

3D Design

  • UNITY
  • VARIETY
  • BALANCE
  • EMPHASIS
  • CONTRAST
  • RHYTHM​​
  • REPETITION
  • PROPORTION
  • SCALE
  • OCCUPIED / UNOCCUPIED SPACE
  • TIME​

Drawing

  • LINE QUALITY
  • LIGHT & SHADE
  • RENDERING FORM
  • COMPOSITION
  • SURFACE MANIPULATION
  • ILLUSION OF DEPTH
  • MARK MAKING
  • USE OF COMPOSITIONAL SPACE (ELEMENTS OF ART / PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN)
  • DECISION MAKING AND INTENTION
  • ORIGINALITY, IMAGINATION, INVENTION
  • EXPERMENTATION, RISK-TAKING
  • CONFIDENT, EVOCATIVE WORK ENGAGING THE VIEWER
  • TECHNICAL SKILL
  • STUDENT VOICE
  • GROWTH (Concentration Portfolio)
  • BROAD RANGE OF DESIGN PROBLEMS IN CONTENT, STYLE, AND PROCESS (Breadth Portfolio)
  • USE OF COMPOSITIONAL SPACE (ELEMENTS OF ART / PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN)
  • DECISION MAKING AND INTENTION
  • ORIGINALITY, IMAGINATION, INVENTION
  • EXPERIMENTATION, RISK-TAKING
  • CONFIDENT, EVOCATIVE WORK ENGAGING THE VIEWER
  • TECHNICAL SKILL
  • DIGITAL PROCESSES, DOCUMENTATION OF VIRTUAL OR TIME-BASED WORKS
  • STUDENT VOICE
  • ACTIVATION OF SPACE
  • GROWTH (Concentration Portfolio)
  • COMPOSITION, CONCEPT & EXECUTION
  • DECISION MAKING AND INTENTION
  • ORIGINALITY, IMAGINATION, INVENTION
  • EXPERIMENTATION, RISK-TAKING
  • CONFIDENT, EVOCATIVE WORK ENGAGING THE VIEWER
  • TECHNICAL SKILL WITH DRAWING MEDIA
  • DIGITAL OR PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIA
  • STUDENT VISION

Breadth Examples

2D

3D

Drawing
Kate Moross
Liz Larner
Pablo Picasso
Sagmeister & Walsh
Nathan Mabry
Paul Klee
Arturo Herrera
Oliver Herring
William Kentridge
Garb Thakali
Judy Pfaff
Laleh Khorramian

Breadth Reminders

  • Clearly show experimentation and a range of conceptual approaches to the work
  • Demonstrate exploration, inventiveness, and the expressive manipulation of form, as well as knowledge of compositional organization
  • You may demonstrate a range of approaches in a single medium or a variety of media. If you choose a single medium, images must show a range of approaches, techniques, compositions, and/or subjects
  • Do not repeat works from your breadth portfolio in your concentration portfolio
  • "Works" an include fully resolved images and forms as well as sketches, models, plans, and diagrams.

Sketches, Plans & Diagrams

  • Sketches, plans, and diagrams help a viewer understand your process when composing the compositional space.
  • This could be four spatial sketches (working out how to layout the visual information) for one composition that you included in your portfolio.
  • This could also be a way to explain how parts interact in dimensional space.
MANDY BARKER - SKETCH FOR LOTUS GARDEN
MANDY BARKER - LOTUS GARDEN