About

Linda Pollack helps students develop their strongest portfoio for admissions to college
art programs.
Linda's portfolio expertise covers art, design, architecture, fashion, photography, animation, media arts, graphic novel, product design, communication design, art history, curatorial studies, and more. Linda's students have been accepted to art and design programs at UCLA, Columbia University, Cornell, SCI-Arc, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, Tyler, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas Austin, University of Miami, Goldsmiths College (UK), Oxford University (UK), and University of Arts London, among others.
Linda's educational background includes a diploma in visual arts from the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands, and a Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. She studied in the New Genres program at UCLA with James Welling and Paul McCarthy, and completed her MFA from UCSD, where she studied with Steve Fagin. At the Amsterdam-based European Cultural Foundation she initiated and launched APEXchanges, the Foundation’s first European mobility fund for promoting exchange among artists and arts administrators between former East and West Europe. As a practicing artist Linda's projects have been showcased at notable venues including the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, The International Festival of Art and Ideas, The James Gallery - CUNY Graduate Center, The Indianapolis Museumm of Art, and Kansas State University, reflecting her active involvement and commitment to the art community.
Linda regularly gives workshops on portfolio development in person at high schools, and on-line.