Advanced Placement Portfolios


The Advanced Placement Program is a collaborative effort among motivated students, dedicated teachers, and committed high schools, colleges, and universities. Since its inception in 1955, the Program has allowed millions of students to take university - level courses and examinations, and to earn university credit or placement while still in high school.

The AP Art and Design program consists of three different courses and AP Portfolio Exams—AP 2-D Art and Design, AP 3-D Art and Design, and AP Drawing—corresponding to college and university foundations courses. Students may choose to submit any or all of the AP Portfolio Exams.

Students create a portfolio of work to demonstrate inquiry through art and design and development of materials, processes, and ideas over the course of a year. Portfolios include works of art and design, process documentation, and written information about the work presented. In May, students submit portfolios for evaluation based on specific criteria, which include skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas and sustained investigation through practice, experimentation, and revision, guided by questions. Students may choose to submit any or all of the AP Portfolio Exams.

AP Art and Design courses will address the following learning outcomes: the ability to (1) conduct a sustained investigation through practice, experimentation, and revision, guided by questions; (2) skillfully synthesize materials, processes, and ideas; and (3) articulate, in writing, information about one’s work.

All images are Sentinel Secondary School Ap Art student works

AP 2D Art and Design, Photography


AP 2D Art and Design

AP 3D Art and Design

AP Drawing

Benefits of Advanced Placement Program

AP art is an academic course that provides students with an opportunity to earn awards, scholarships, and improve their chances of university admission.

AP allows students to earn university credit or advanced placement and can provide them with:

• Possible tuition savings by providing university course credit

• Flexibility in university course choices

• Early entry to Post Secondary Institutions

See AP College Board for more information