CR1 The teacher and students use a variety of art and design resources which can include books, periodicals, reproductions, and online media. See page: 6
CR2 The teacher and students have access to a digital camera and a computer equipped with image editing software and an internet connection as well as a digital projector and screen for viewing and discussing works of art and design. See page: 7
CR3 The course provides opportunities for students to practice and develop the skills in Skill Category 1: Inquiry and Investigation through portfolio development. See pages: 4, 5, 6
CR4 The course provides opportunities for students to practice and develop the skills in Skill Category 2: Making through Practice, Experimentation, and Revision through portfolio development. See pages: 3, 4, 5, 6
CR5 The course provides opportunities for students to practice and develop the skills in Skill Category 3: Communication and Reflection through portfolio development. See pages: 3, 5, 6
CR6 The course teaches students to understand integrity in art and design as well as what constitutes plagiarism. If students produce work that makes use of others’ work, the course teaches students how to develop their own work so that it moves beyond duplication of the referenced work(s).
Objectives/Goals of Course:
Students will:
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the elements of art and principles of design through an investigative experimentation of ideas, materials, and processes using electronic media in conjunction with traditional art mediums, materials, and processes.
Learn and value the investigative process of recording ideas, solving problems, and using these ideas for artwork creating.
Use decision making skills to assess visual problems. Become an active communicator in the artmaking process with self, instructors, peers, and the art community.
Develop a Sustained Investigation—a personal investigation (body of artwork) that focuses on a special area of visual problems to solve.
Develop and choose five high-quality works that are excellent in concept, composition and execution to submit for the Selected Works section in their final portfolio.
Explore postsecondary options for art making.
Course Description
This is a full-year course developed to accommodate students who have demonstrated a strong interest and commitment to excel in computer generated artwork. These students will complete an AP 2-D Art and Design portfolio with an emphasis on computer generated media. Research, digital critiques will be integral parts of this course. All students will submit a portfolio at the end of the course that has followed the AP Art and Design Portfolio Submission requirements. With direct teacher instruction, the emphasis will be placed on the development of the AP Portfolio. The students will complete both sections (Sustained Investigation and Selected Work Quality Section) of the portfolio.
This course will emphasize ongoing documented experimentation with design concepts, composition, and media that uses Digital Journals (Google Web pages and/or Google Slides). Students will use these Digital Journals daily, and they will be the core source of ideation and documentation of their artmaking. Artist growth, ideas, and final artworks will be investigated through the use of these files.
As a part of this course, students must develop their own personal voice. Mastery of concepts, composition, execution, varied art mediums, mixed media, and themes, concepts, subject matter, and content are an expected outcome. Students will understand that creating and developing art is a constant, ongoing activity that involves personal decision making. Students will understand that in order to for their artwork to achieve quality in concept, composition, and execution, it includes much risk taking, experimenting, and research. This risk-taking process will be documented in their Digital Journals).
Artistic Integrity, copyright, professional ethics, moving beyond duplication, and plagiarism will be discussed on an ongoing basis and are embedded throughout the course, and in core instruction of the course.
Throughout the course students are encouraged to work from their individual direct life observation of things in their world, their Personal Experiences