Scholarship Winners
Announcing the 2025Â InDesign Your Portfolio scholarship recipients!
My team and I were blown away by the passion, dedication, and creativity shared in each application. It was truly an honor to read about your journeys and the challenges you’ve faced in developing your portfolios.
After much consideration, I’m excited to announce the recipients of this year’s scholarship! Please join me in congratulating:
🎉 Bieunkah Anwojue
🎉 Dani Redeye
🎉 Holly Karten
🎉 Laurie Breitkreuz
🎉 Sheree Hicks
🎉 Tania Saiz ÂI wish we could offer scholarships to everyone who applied. If you weren’t selected this time, please know this isn’t a reflection of your talent or potential. I’ll be offering more opportunities in the future and would love to see you in InDesign Your Portfolio.
Thank you again for sharing your story with us. Keep creating, keep exploring, and know that your artistic voice matters!
Bieunkah Anwojue
đź“Ť United States
🎨 Paper Goods & Books
đź“· @bieunkah
Bieunkah is an author and illustrator who began her creative journey making greeting cards, coloring books, and journals that inspired many. She now focuses on illustration and book projects, with the goal of licensing her artwork for stationery and home goods. Through InDesign Your Portfolio, she hopes to create a polished, professional portfolio that will help her attract clients and see her work on shelves and homes around the world.
"I’m hoping to learn how to create a fun, professional portfolio that will attract clients and also help to build lasting partnerships. My dream is to see my work on shelves, in kitchens, in offices…"
Dani Redeye
đź“Ť United States
🎨 Visual Artist
đź“· @dani.redeye
Dani is a visual artist with a BA in Visual Arts & New Media. She has explored many mediums and developed processes for creating new art, and she’s now ready to organize her body of work into a portfolio that clearly reflects her style and vision. Her goal is to confidently pitch her art. With this course, Dani hopes to gain the tools and structure she needs to present her work professionally and open new creative doors.
"I have knowledge and stories and ideas and the passion necessary to sustain this thing. I think this course would help me put the puzzle together."
Holly Karten
đź“ŤÂ Australia
🎨 Inclusion-Focused Art
🌎 hollykarten.com.au
Holly has a background in fashion and textile design, and she creates patterns and illustrations that celebrate color, vibrancy, and accessibility. She envisions collaborating with companies to make technology and products that are both functional and joyful. Holly has collections ready to share, and through this course, she’s excited to develop a portfolio that helps her pitch her dream clients with confidence.
"IÂ want to be involved with companies who make accessible technology and through my art make them vibrant, celebratory and fun! I am capable of it, and now I just need the confidence and the ability to pitch companies with an awesome portfolio."
Laurie Breitkreuz
đź“ŤÂ Canada
🎨 Illustration & Art Prints
🌍 artoflaurieb.ca
Laurie is an illustrator known for her whimsical, Disney-esque “baby-fied” pop culture characters, a style she has shared with audiences across Canada and the U.S. at comic cons for more than 20 years. Her past projects include illustrating a Dora the Explorer coloring book for Nickelodeon. Laurie now dreams of expanding into children’s publishing, toy design, and surface design. She sees InDesign Your Portfolio as the next step to elevate her presentation and connect with art directors and manufacturers.
"I am beyond ready to live as fully as possible, and to take my career to the next and the next level! My hope is that this InDesign course will really help my portfolio shine and set me apart. Because I am ready to be seen!"
Sheree Hicks
đź“ŤÂ United Kingdom
🎨 Pattern Design
đź“· shereehicksdesigns
Sheree is a surface pattern designer who discovered her passion for patterns after exploring many creative mediums. She dreams of running a successful POD shop, licensing her patterns, and selling her designs locally in her English village. With a growing body of work, Sheree is ready to create a portfolio that showcases her unique style and helps her confidently pitch to clients and companies.
"I have a lot of work that I intend to re-do using my new style and I want to capture that work rather than have it sitting on my iPad. I would be the proudest person in the world if I could have a portfolio that I could show my family and then hit the ground running in 2026 with pitches to real clients. "
Tania Saiz
đź“Ť United States
🎨 Fine Art
đź“· stroke_maven_art
Tania creates artwork that centers resilience, identity, and emotional connection. With a background in art history and a career in marketing, she has recently returned to hands-on artmaking through illustration and fine art. Her goal is to build a professional portfolio that communicates her vision with clarity and adaptability for galleries, residencies, and collaborations. This course will help her design a portfolio that feels authentic and impactful.
"I want to explore all the ways my art can live—fine art prints, cards, or other formats I haven’t tried yet. I’m excited to experiment, see what resonates, and discover new opportunities. Most of all, I want the confidence to present my work boldly and share it with the world."
