Applying to Wesleyan

Visual Arts

The Wesleyan Visual Arts Department welcomes submissions of creative work to supplement a prospective student’s application!

  • We do not accept artist statements, personal photos, Xeroxes, pdfs, or web sites.

Submitting Images Digitally:

The Wesleyan Admission staff will create a folder on the Wesleyan file system for the uploading of your work.

To request your folder:

For Photography, please email supplementalphoto@wesleyan.edu .

For Visual Arts**, please email supplementalart@wesleyan.edu .
**Including Architecture, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture

Include your WesID, full name, admission program (ED I, ED II, Regular, Transfer) and specific supplement type.  In return, you will receive a special link with upload directions.

Submission Guidelines:

  • The submission must be in the jpeg (.jpg) file format at 72 dpi on CD or DVD.
  • The title of each jpeg should be your last name, WesID, and sequential number starting with "1" separated by an underscore, i.e. Jones_12.jpg.
  • Upload at least ten, but no more than 20 images.
  • We will try our best to open these images but if they do not open we will not be responsible for notifying you or reformatting them, so you may wish to try them on a platform other than your own.
  • We will only consider portfolios of Photography, Architecture, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture.
  • Portfolios of one medium are preferred over portfolios of mixed media.  Therefore, please do not submit portfolios containing more than two different media (i.e. photo and architecture).

Categories reviewed:

Photographic ART 
  • Photography

Visual ART

  • Architecture
  • Drawing
  • Graphic Design
  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Sculpture

Website: http://www.wesleyan.edu/art/

Please submit by the application program deadlines (Nov. 15 for ED1 and Jan. 1 for ED2 and Regular admission), and note that materials will not be returned to you.  Material received after these deadlines will not be reviewed.