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Academy of Art’s Best of the Best: The Spring Show Showcase

This year’s Spring Show, hosted online, gives you plenty of inspiration and zero excuses to check out Academy of Art University’s Best of the Best. Here are four students with their art portfolio, in case you need any more convincing.

For Academy of Art students, the Spring Show is a big deal. This is this the biggest showcase of all their hard work throughout their Academy life, it is also the most effective career-building opportunity for them before official graduating.

Traditionally, the Spring is staged for an entire month in an exhibit, where industry insiders, company representatives, and job recruiters get first row access to students’ projects, portfolios, and résumés. However, because of the enormous and unfortunate hiccup that is the pandemic, the Academy has had to come up with a new plan to save the Spring Show.

And they did! The solution: take it all online!

Now, the entire show is available on the official Spring Show website, accessibly by anyone and anybody for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no matter where they may be. That’s a silver lining we don’t mind taking out of all this.

And now without further ado, we would like to introduce you to four Academy of Art students, proudly showing off their creations at the ongoing Spring Show. Don’t miss out on the rest of the best by visiting the Spring Show website.

Lynn Lin
School of Jewerly and Metal Arts

(Exceprt from artist’s Spring Show bio)

Lynn uses her artwork as a response to her observations and feelings. Her recent series, Fig and Fig Wasp – What Makes a Memory, was inspired by her childhood memories. She combines different materials and techniques to create visual contrasts and metaphors within these works. 


Sergio Rincon
School of Animation & Visual Effects

(Exceprt from artist’s Spring Show bio)

Sergio Rincon is a graphic designer, 3D animation technologist and specialist in advertising design from Bucaramanga – Colombia. He worked in advertising for four years, and now is finishing a Master’s degree in Visual Effects. In 2018, he earned a scholarship from a Colombian organization called Colfuturo to earn an MA in Animation and Visual Effects at the Academy of at University. He also got the grant portfolio scholarship for the spring 2019 semester. 


Nimisha Doongarwal
School of Fine Art

((Exceprt from artist’s Spring Show bio)

Nimisha’s mixed media artworks are grouped inventories of fragments: paintings, photographs, fabrics, and digital prints. The work explores the varying relationships between past and popular culture by referencing Indian and British history. Every image tells a unique story by creating visual links to history and reality.


Carly Wolf
School of Photography

Carly Wolf’s California Coastline won in the Best in Show: Portfolio category.


The annual Spring Show is Academy of Art University’s showcase for the best of the best student works of the year. Industry insiders, recruiters, and companies on the lookout for the next big, bright artist can look forward to some of the best that the Academy has produced. The 2020 Spring Show is accessible for everyone and exclusively open online.

Academy of Art University is open for the Fall semester online. Contact our admissions representatives for more details. Apply now if you’re ready to be a part of our art school community.


Hero image California Coast by Carly Wolf