The Cecilia Beaux Forum Mentorship Program

Creating mentoring opportunities for women artists by fostering relationships between established and emerging artists in a nine-month program.

The program fosters relationships between established artists and advanced emerging female artists. Participants of the Mentoring Program will work one-on-one with their mentor over the nine-month period, using personal goals as focus and motivation.

Requirements to apply, you must:

• Be a Portrait Society of America Member

• Be a Cecilia Beaux Forum Member

• Have advanced experience in your chosen medium, including working from life

• Have specific goals to achieve with the help of a mentor

• Have a portfolio of 8-10 works

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2021 Application Deadline: October 1, 2020

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Application fee:  $35

Program fee:  $315

Total Cost:  $350

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Applicants that are not chosen to participate for the 2021 program year will have their portfolios reviewed by mentors and will receive written feedback. 

Get Involved

Mentors must possess leadership abilities, program coordination skills, professional development experience, and be detail-oriented. If you are interested in volunteering as a Cecilia Beaux Forum Mentor, please email allison@portraitsociety.org.

Mentoring Partners for 2021

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Jane Butkovsky with Gavin Glakas

Crystal Despain with Tina Garrett

Devi Anne Moore with Lea Wight

Sandra Quintus with Patricia Rice

Anna Toberman with Gwenneth Barth-White

Cecilia Beaux, Ernesta, 1914,

71 3/4 x 43 3/8 in., oil on canvas,

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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