Artist, educator, and founder of ApoKrino. Trevett teaches ideation as a practice — the step before execution — through the ApoKrino Ideation Studio, and works 1:1 with a small number of artists and students.
Trevett Allen is an artist, art educator, maker, and the founder of ApoKrino, based in Spain. He has taught drawing, painting, creative technology, and portfolio development for more than 25 years at independent schools in the US and international schools in Hong Kong and Spain, including a year at the Smithsonian, with students placed at RISD, SAIC, Ringling, UPenn, Stanford, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Illinois Wesleyan. He mentors students one-on-one on art school portfolios and on tech and innovation portfolios — building apps, devices, and contest-winning projects for university entrance — and writes Notes on the Living Arts on Substack.
Trevett’s work is a practice: studio drawing and painting, teaching, writing, and the slow design of creative tools. Twenty-five years of teaching — including a year at the Smithsonian — became the ApoKrino method: a way of finding the signal already present in an artist’s own work, and building the next project from it. Students have gone on to programs including RISD, SAIC, and Stanford, but the method is a practice, not a promise.
The ApoKrino Ideation Studio is the primary way to work with Trevett: five sessions across ten weeks, in small founding cohorts. Bring one unfinished work and find the signal.
A small number of 1:1 spots are available for artists and students who need direct, private work — book on Stan Store. Ongoing writing lives at Notes on the Living Arts.