AP 3D Studio

Course Description:

This highly challenging course enables willing and academically prepared students to pursue college-level three-dimensional art and design studies with the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both, while still in high school. Students will hone skills in written and visual evidence of questions/inquiry that further a sustained investigation demonstrating the synthesis of three-dimensional materials, processes, ideas and concepts, written and visual evidence of practice, experimentation, and/or revision. Because Advanced Placement (AP) requires mastery of concepts, composition/form, and execution, the AP 3-D Art and Design schedule of assignments focuses on fulfilling portfolio requirements for the Sustained Investigation and Selected Works sections. The teacher assumes that AP Art and Design students have reached a level of academic and artistic maturity in previous classes.

 High School Prerequisites for AP Art and Design:

AP Art and Design courses are for all students who are interested in inquiry-based thinking, creating, and making. Prior experiences learning about and making art and design support student success. Students should take as many studio art courses as possible before enrolling in AP. They should also consider taking community art courses and summer precollege courses or workshops available at art schools.

Classroom Expectations:

Students are expected to:

• Create 8-12 Completed Works

• Keeping an artist’s sketchbook

•  Mastering the planning and research necessary in making three-dimensional works of art

•  Becoming fully engaged in the process of making art and developing a disciplined work ethic

•  Visiting art galleries/museums regularly and becoming acquainted with the work of other artists

•  Creating works that visually demonstrate a mastery of advanced 3-D skills in concepts, compositional design, and execution

•  Providing visual evidence of synthesis of 3-D materials, processes, concepts, and ideas

•  Creating a competent college-level portfolio and developing into an independent 3-D structural image maker

•  Creating independent and unique 3-D works that do not make use of existing copyrighted material of any type by other artists

•  Developing works based on their individual life observations, experiences, dreams, and/or fantasies

•  Shooting professional-quality photographs in an indoor studio setting using a digital camera and/or computer with image editing software

Students will:

•  Come to class and begin working

•  Complete work assigned for outside the class

•  Complete projects on time (and meet with the instructor if an event arises that prevents this)

•  Participate in lectures, discussions, group and individual critiques, and demonstrations

•  Seek advice from peers with special knowledge or skills when they get stuck

•  Clean up their work and take care of equipment

•  Show respect to everyone in the classroom and their artworks, as well as to their own works of art

•  Take advantage of the sketchbook—it’s a great place to develop and store ideas and it will be graded

Course Curriculum:

We will follow South Carolina Visual Art Standards throughout this course.

• Anchor Standard 1: I can use the elements and principles of art to create artwork.

• Anchor Standard 2: I can use different materials, techniques, and processes to make art.

• Anchor Standard 3: I can improve and complete artistic work using elements and principles.

• Anchor Standard 4: I can organize work for presentation and documentation to reflect specific content, ideas, skills, and or media.

• Anchor Standard 5: I can interpret and evaluate the meaning of an artwork.

• Anchor Standard 6: I can identify and examine the role of visual arts through history and world cultures.

• Anchor Standard 7: I can relate visual arts ideas to other arts disciplines, content areas, and careers.

We will also be learning through the Elements of Art (Shape, Form, Value, Line, Color, Space, and Texture) and Principles of Design (Balance, Rhythm, Movement, Emphasis, Pattern, Repetition, Variety, Proportion, and Unity)

Curriculum consists of participation (minor), minor projects, and major projects.

Grading:

40% Selected Works

Students should carefully select the works that demonstrate their skillful synthesis and mastery of concept, composition/design, and execution of materials, processes, and ideas. The submission can be a group of related works, unrelated works, or a combination of related and unrelated works. These works may also be submitted in the Sustained Investigation section, but they don’t have to be. 

Along with each work, students are required to submit written responses to prompts about the work. Responses are evaluated along with the images that students submit. The most successful responses in terms of assessment are those that are clearly related to the images of work submitted, that directly and completely address the prompts, and that provide further evidence of skillful synthesis and mastery of concept, composition/design, and execution of materials, processes, and ideas shown in the work. Responses are not evaluated for correct spelling, grammar, or punctuation.

60% Sustained Investigation

Students submit 15 images demonstrating their 3-D art and design skills. Students will conduct a sustained investigation based on questions discovered through practice, experimentation, and revision. The sustained investigation is guided by explorations and questions. Students are expected to document—with images and words—their practice, experimentation, and revision using materials, processes, and ideas. The Sustained Investigation section is expected to demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas. These works may also be submitted in the Selected Works section, but they don’t have to be.

Along with each work, students are required to submit written responses to prompts about the work. Responses are evaluated along with the images of designs, forms, structures, that students submit. When submitting work for the Sustained Investigation section, students should carefully consider the sequence of their images. There is no required order; images should be presented to best demonstrate their sustained investigation. Students should also consider the relationship of the images with the written information they submit. The most successful responses in terms of assessment are those that are clearly related to the images of work submitted, that directly and completely address the prompts, and that provide evidence of inquiry-based sustained investigation through practice, experimentation, and revision. Responses are not evaluated for correct spelling, grammar, or punctuation. 

There is no preferred (or unacceptable) basis of inquiry, type of investigation, or use of material, process, idea, style, or content in this section. Students should be the principal artist/designer of the work submitted. If any of the work involves collaboration, the student submitting the work needs to have made all the key decisions about materials, processes, and ideas used and needs to have performed all the activities that produced the work.

In-Class Grading:

Test: Art/2-D and 3-D design projects 60%

Daily: 40%

ATCs/photo collages

Other (critiques, portfolio uploads, gallery visits, special assignments)

Participation (arriving on time, being prepared, staying on task)

In the Studio:

Each student must work in class every day to receive instructional and academic support. Students are also required to meet quarterly with the instructor to plan and discuss their portfolio development. AP Art and Design students should also attend Art Club, spend power hour in the art room, and/or designate extra time at home to complete weekly projects. Whenever possible, art professionals, artists, or 3-D artists or designers will visit the studio for critiques and/or to demonstrate and highlight their creative work.

Late Work Policy: 10 points off per day, max of 60 if turned in by end of unit, max of 50 if turned in after the unit *DAY IS DEFINED BY CLASS PERIOD*

Missing work: All work can be re-submitted for a higher grade. The only way you cannot regain points is by submitting the work late and gaining late points. 

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