Acceptance into elite architecture, design, and art programs at the graduate and undergraduate level is competitive and requires creative materials that traditional schools do not.

Consulting from Allison Advisory can help you get there.

We shape and sharpen students’ creative portfolios, written statements, and creative strategies for acceptance into Post-Baucalareate, Undergraduate and Graduate College Admittance, AP Portfolios in High School, and Post-Graduate Career Development and Studio Formation.

Allison has advised students who have been admitted to Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons/NY, Cornell, Washington University, Syracuse University, New York University and others.

About Allison

Allison Warren has worked as a professional artist, designer, educator, and academic admissions officer in higher education since 2000.

Allison was part of the Admissions Recruiting Team at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which reviewed and developed creative portfolios for admittance to the school from 2015-2023. She has also worked with Polygence Inc., a student research consultancy.

Also at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), she has taught Freshman Foundations, as well as developed course work in design entrepreneurship, sustainable textile manufacturing, and product design.

Prior, she co-directed the Design Foundations design sequence in Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2006-2014.

Allison is started her career in the Arts after receiving a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, and a MFA in Painting and Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. Her gallery artwork has received critical notice from curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Houston Museum of Art, and the Banff Centre in Ontario, Canada among others.