Fundamentals on Presenting a Strong Portfolio

 Presented by: 
Mary Anne Garcia & Delisa Clarke 

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 About This Course: 
The portfolio is the start into a multitude of creative opportunities and often the first point of contact to potential clients, institutions, and employers. Learn how to make a good first impression and get information to prepare and present your portfolio for different streams: education, employment, and grants. Get insights on how to select, curate your work, and maximize your impact using various platforms (social media, website, PDF). Understand how feedback can help you refine your portfolio. 

LEARNING OUTCOME: 

• Explore strategies for effectively receiving and responding to critique and feedback about your work 

• Explore strategies for tailoring your portfolio for specific purposes (such as education, employment, funding and grants, and so on) 

• Identify techniques for selecting and formatting samples of your work due to technical or submission requirements (topics may include: resizing and reformatting, PDF preparation, social media or website linking, and so on) 

 Speaker Bios: 
Mary Anne (Mare) Garcia(she/her) is a Canadian Filipinx product/furniture designer and creative director behind Space Queen Studio - a Toronto-based home goods studio where cute 'n kitschy meets pop culture but with a succulent green twist. Garcia’s creative practice is guided by her fascination with building, experimentation, and material exploration. She is a recipient of COFO design’s inaugural design challenge, and an advocate of slow and ethical design. Her work looks to transform ordinary interactions through playfulness and movement.

Delisa Clarke (she/her) is an aspiring set/interior designer raised in the spice isle of Grenada and currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She holds an Architectural Technology Advanced Diploma from Humber College and is a recent graduate of OCAD University’s Environmental Design program – with a specialization in Interior Design. Her creative practice is informed by her passion for sustainability and smart technology. Considering the pandemic and the mental/physical obstacles it has heightened in our home environments, she hopes to solve these problems through thoughtful design and holistic integration of home infrastructure, space orientation and accessibility. In her downtime, she enjoys travelling, reading, listening to soca music, and (of course), watching historical movies and entertainment.  

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