<p>Yes. Contacting the art department and sending some samples would be a good idea, too.</p>
<p>The way I look at it: what do you have to lose? Getting accepted to any of these colleges generally hinges on some little thing that makes the admissions department select one student over several other equally qualified students. That one thing could be an art professor eating lunch with the Admissions Dean and saying, “hey what about that kid, Peter, from Eastern Europe? The photographs he sent me to look at were excellent…”. </p>
<p>You never know.</p>