Teen Portfolio Development (Evening)

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Tuesdays (six-weeks) | 6pm to 8pm

Dates: Sept 23 | Sept 30 | Oct 7 | Oct 14 | Oct 21 | Oct 28
Skill Level: Beginning to Intermediate
Instructor: Simoni Limeira Bonadies, PhD, History, Univerisdade Aberta de Portugal; Art Teacher at Rochelle School of the Arts

Fee: $165 Members, $215 Non-Members

This program will help guide artistically-minded students through portfolio standards, expectations, and projects for application-based fine arts high schools, colleges, and universities. Students will receive one-on-one portfolio instruction, assignments designed to help them improve their personal portfolios, and access to art materials. This course centers on refining the skills required to create an application-ready portfolio of work. This program does not guarantee acceptance into any high school, college, or university.

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Simoni Limeira-Bonadies is an award-winning Visual Arts Educator who recently received her doctorate in History with Distinction from the Universidade Aberta de Portugal. Simoni is from Brazil where she started as a college professor teaching Art History and Juridical Philosophy. Since 2007, she’s taught Visual Arts in Pinellas County and in Polk County Public Schools - winning Teacher of the Year in 2016 and Florida Middle School Art Educator of the Year in 2021. Since teaching in the US, the work of her students has been shown at The Dali Museum, Cape Canaveral, The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art (previously Polk Museum of the Art), Fine Arts Festivals, and others. Also an artist herself, Simoni has been published through National Geographic and has won numerous local awards.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Sunday, September 14, 2025

Any registrations submitted after the registration deadline includes a $35 late fee.

REFUNDS

All refund requests must be submitted in writing and will incur a $35 handling fee. If a class or workshop is cancelled due to low enrollment, a full refund will be available. If a class or workshop is not cancelled and refund is requested, a reimbursement will be made in full up to seven days prior to the class or workshop starting date. No reimbursement will be made after the seven-day period.