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"Alter", From the portfolio of Levi K.
About Linda Pollack, Director
Portfolio workshop, Center for Architecture NYC
Linda has been coaching students on their college art portfolio for over a decade. She covers programs in art, design, architecture, fashion, photography, animation, media arts, graphic novel, human ecology, product design, communication design, art history, curatorial studies and more. Her students have been accepted to Columbia University, Cornell, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, University of Miami, Goldsmiths College (UK), Oxford University (UK), and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, among others.
Linda is herself a practicing artist, exploring civic culture and specifically the U.S Constitution and the culture of democracy. Recent projects could be experienced at the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the Torrance Art Museum. In 2018 she developed a campus wide dialogue project, "Living Democracy" for Kansas State University.
Internationally, Linda has exhibited in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium, and Romania. Before studying art Linda received a BS in Finance from Penn State University. She holds a diploma in visual arts from the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands, and was a Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart Germany. Linda returned to the United States to study with Paul McCarthy in the New Genres program at UCLA, and received her MFA from UCSD. Linda honed her expertise in developing multilateral cultural projects in The Netherlands, while working for the Amsterdam based European Cultural Foundation. There she launched APEXchanges, the Foundation’s first European mobility fund for promoting exchange among artists and arts administrators between former East and West Europe. In response to the war in the former Yugoslavia, Linda created a series of arts and cultural initiatives to promote pluralism and democracy, working with Haris Pasovic, the Sarajevo Festival Ensemble, and Macedonian rock stars Leb i Sol.
Along with art and constitutional democracy, Linda is a fan of stove-top espresso machines, tagine cooking, the architect Rudolph Schindler, and Dutch design. Linda regularly gives workshops at conferences, high schools and public libraries about how to develop a strong college art portfolio. If you are interested in having Linda present at your school, please contact us.
Linda is herself a practicing artist, exploring civic culture and specifically the U.S Constitution and the culture of democracy. Recent projects could be experienced at the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the Torrance Art Museum. In 2018 she developed a campus wide dialogue project, "Living Democracy" for Kansas State University.
Internationally, Linda has exhibited in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium, and Romania. Before studying art Linda received a BS in Finance from Penn State University. She holds a diploma in visual arts from the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands, and was a Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart Germany. Linda returned to the United States to study with Paul McCarthy in the New Genres program at UCLA, and received her MFA from UCSD. Linda honed her expertise in developing multilateral cultural projects in The Netherlands, while working for the Amsterdam based European Cultural Foundation. There she launched APEXchanges, the Foundation’s first European mobility fund for promoting exchange among artists and arts administrators between former East and West Europe. In response to the war in the former Yugoslavia, Linda created a series of arts and cultural initiatives to promote pluralism and democracy, working with Haris Pasovic, the Sarajevo Festival Ensemble, and Macedonian rock stars Leb i Sol.
Along with art and constitutional democracy, Linda is a fan of stove-top espresso machines, tagine cooking, the architect Rudolph Schindler, and Dutch design. Linda regularly gives workshops at conferences, high schools and public libraries about how to develop a strong college art portfolio. If you are interested in having Linda present at your school, please contact us.
