ARTISTIC ADVISING

FOR PORTFOLIOS & AUDITIONS

Arts Advisory Board

Best Fit Education connects institutions to students and students to institutions. It’s a simple concept with extraordinary results.

The Best Fit Arts Advisory Board (AAB) is a collective of visual and performing arts professionals with years of experience as practitioners and educators. When we see a student or institution with a specific need, we connect them to an AAB expert who can move their career, education, or institution forward. Each board member is highly responsive and set to make a difference for you. 

We have experts available to advise in the following areas of performing and visual arts:

Dance

Choreography

Musical theater

Acting

Directing

Theater Tech

Instrumental music

Vocal music

Composition

Electronic music

Sound Design

Animation

Game design

Film

Screenwriting

Cinematography

Photography

Graphic arts

Fashion design

Industrial design

Architecture

SPECIALIZED CONNECTIONS WITH PURPOSE

Would you like to connect with AAB? If you don’t see what you are looking for we can find an expert for you through our network of artists and educators. Contact us for more information.

What does an AAB connection look like?

    • Student advising

    • Artistic assessment

    • Career counseling

    • Portfolio review and improvement

    • Audition preparation

    • Private instruction

    • Ongoing arts counseling and/or project critiques

    • Workshops

    • Online classes

    • Masterclasses

    • Recommendation/connection for visiting faculty

    • Curricular advice. 

CO-CONSULTATION

Our AAB members are available as Performing and Visual Arts Consultants. We offer talent evaluations and artistic input to other IECs, as well as to school counselors administrators, and teachers in private and public schools.

Meet Jesse Damazo

Jesse Damazo is a filmmaker, media artist, and educator based in Los Angeles. He has worked for more than 10 years in higher education and more than eight years in higher education admissions including teaching film at the University of Iowa and serving as film admissions counselor at CalArts.

Jesse and fellow BFE Arts Advisory Board member Sinah Ober have created a Portfolio Film Development Course to help students create and develop films that will help their film portfolios stand out. Students not only end up with a polished film they can be proud of, but they will also gain valuable skills and learn about themselves as an artist.