Boston Performing and Visual Arts College Fair at Emmanuel College is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is recommended; high school students will receive a QR code that colleges can scan to track who saw them. This puts students into their system and notes their interest in the school and will also trigger mailings and emails from the schools.
The Performing and Visual Arts Fair (PVA) connects students with colleges and universities offering majors in music, theater, art, dance, visual arts, graphic design, film production, and other related disciplines.
Because this college fair is small and well targeted, it’s not overwhelming. This is especially great for students interested in art and design programs as they can get portfolio reviews without standing in long lines.
This year, 2019, it was held at Emmanuel College at the Jean Yawkey Center gymnasium. The colleges and universities in attendance were:
Adelphi University
AMDA College & Conservatory of the Performing Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American College Dublin
Anna Maria College
Bennington College
Berklee College of Music
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Boston University College of Fine Arts
Bridgewater State University
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia College Chicago
Dean College
Drexel University
Edge Hill University
Edinburgh Napier University
Emerson College
Emmanuel College
Five Towns College
Framingham State University
Full Sail University
Goldsmiths, University of London
Illinois Wesleyan University
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Ithaca College School of Music
Keene State College
London Metropolitan University
Los Angeles College of Music
Loyola University New Orleans
Maine College of Art
Manhattanville College
Marlboro College
Marymount Manhattan College
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Merrimack College
Molloy College
Montserrat College of Art
Muhlenberg College
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater
New York Film Academy
New York School of Interior Design
Northeastern University
Northern Vermont University
Norwich University of the Arts
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oogie Art
Purchase College, SUNY
Regent’s University London
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology
Roger Williams University
Roosevelt University: Chicago College of Performing Arts
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Sacred Heart University
Salem State University
Savannah College of Art and Design
School of Arts and Media, University of Salford
Schulich School of Music of McGill University
Shenandoah University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Studio School
Suffolk University
Syracuse University
The Catholic University of America
The College of Saint Rose
The George Washington University
The Glasgow School of Art
The Hartt School
The Juilliard School
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
The New School
The University of Arizona
The University of Manchester
The University of Sydney
The University of the Arts
Tufts University (School of Museum of Fine Arts)
University of Central Lancashire
University of Maine
University of Maryland School of Music
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University of New Hampshire- Department of Theatre and Dance
University of New Haven
University of Southern Maine
Westfield State University
I went with my Transitioning Together (First to College) mentee and we focused on art and design colleges in the Northeast. She received portfolio reviews from:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Montserrat College of Art
Maine College of Art
In addition, we talked to Savannah College of Art and Design. All this took about 90 minutes, including perusing the room to look at every college. The Performing and Visual Arts Fair was two hours from 6:30 to 8:30 pm so there was plenty of time.
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