Advanced Placement Studio Art and Honors Art:  2D, 3D and Drawing

Course description

Advanced Placement Studio Art is a college-based class designed for students who are interested in pursuing an artistic field after high school.  Students will develop their creative interests and concepts while composing an individual portfolio.  Unlike traditional art classes, Advanced Placement Drawing, 2D and 3D Studio Art is based solely on the portfolio which will be completed by the end of April.  The portfolio will be submitted to the AP College Board the first week of May.  Students will then receive their final score after the AP College Board reviews are submitted. 

Objective:  Students will develop strong skills in a sustained investigation that may be used in the field of study after high school and college/technical school.  Students will develop a professional presentable portfolio for selected audiences such as colleges, galleries and museums.  Students will explore and develop a series of works that are consistent with medium(s) but shows investigation, development and innovation with the immersed involvement of a compelling visual concept.  From a sustained investigation students will share evidence of practice and growth by means of visual sketches and practices as well as written evidence that describes theories and concepts the student is demonstrating visually. Works should be high quality, sequential and demonstrate synthesis throughout the year within their portfolio. 

2D Design Portfolio  3D Design Portfolio Drawing Portfolio

SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION 

• What is it? • Inquiry-based • 15 images • Processes and/or finished artworks • Weighted scoring, worth 60% of total portfolio 

• What is it looking for? • Visual evidence of design and art concepts (specified per portfolio) (20%) • Visual and written evidence of: - An inquiry guided sustained investigation (20%) - A relationship of materials and ideas (30%) - Practice, experimentation, and revision (30%)

• Writing Expectations: • Artist Statement: 1,200 characters total • Each artwork includes: - Dimensions (H x W x D) - Materials (100 characters) - Processes (100 characters) 

• Submission Expectations: • Digitally submitted (resized for upload)  

SELECTED WORKS 

• What is it? • Five “best” artworks scored holistically, worth 40% of total portfolio • Artworks may be related, unrelated, or combination of • Artworks may come from the Sustained Investigation 

• What is it looking for? • Visual evidence of: - Design and art concepts (specified per portfolio) - Relationships among materials, processes, and ideas are clearly evident and demonstrate synthesis • Written evidence identifies materials, processes, and ideas. 

• Writing Expectations: • Each artwork includes: - Dimensions (H x W x D) - Materials (100 characters) - Processes (100 characters) - Ideas (100 characters) 

• Submission Expectations: • 3D Design: Digital submission of 10 images (two of each artwork, resized for upload) • 2D Design and 2D Drawing: Digital submission of 5 images (one of each artwork, resized for upload) 

https://theartofeducation.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AP-Art-and-Design-Portfolio-Cheat-Sheet-2.pdf 

Grade for Class: 

Due at the end of each month via in person for critique and online on ARTSONIA:

• Sustained Investigation: A work stemming from a central idea that tells a story or concept visually. 50%

• Evidence AND Practice: Practicing skills and ideas prior to creating a Sustained Investigation piece . 30%

• Written Evidence of Visual Evidence: One paragraph under Investigation and one statement about evidence of practice inserted in the artist statement on Artsonia  20% 

AP Art Portfolio Objective:

The main object of the AP portfolio is to develop a professional presentable portfolio for selected audiences such as colleges, galleries and museums. Students will work on creating a strong cohesive body of work in the concentration section of the portfolio. The concentration topic and the work presented are unmistakably and coherently integrated. 

Create a solid concentration students will: 

1.      Investigate a topic provides convincing evidence of informed decision making and discovery. 

2.      Create an original vision and innovative ideas and/or risk taking. 

3.      Work should be evocative and sustained throughout creation of the portfolio. 

4.      Work has effective application of 2-D or 3D design principles. 

5.      In general, the work is technically excellent; materials and media are used effectively to express ideas. 

6.      The work conveys a sense of transformation and most works demonstrate a distinct measure of success. 

7.      Published or/and photographic resources used in the work clearly provides a visual reference that is transformed in the service of a larger, personal vision in which the student’s “voice” is prominent. 

8.      Accomplishment among the works may vary, but overall the work reaches a level of excellent quality.

C3:   http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_studio_art_scoring_guidelines.pdf

Honor Code, Ethics, Artistic Integrity and Plagiarism

Any work that makes use of (appropriates) photographs, published images and/or other artists’ work must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This is demonstrated through manipulation of the formal qualities, design and/or concept of the source. The student’s individual “voice” should be clearly evident. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law simply to copy an image (even in another medium) that was made by someone else and represent it as one’s own.

Digital images of student work that are submitted for the Breadth and Concentration sections of the portfolio may be edited. However, the goals of image editing should be to present the clearest, most accurate representation of the student’s artwork, and to ensure that images meet the requirements of the Digital Submission Web application. When submitting their portfolios, students must indicate their acceptance of the following statement: “I hereby affirm that all works in this portfolio were done by me and that these images accurately represent my actual work.” 

C10:  © 2011 The College Board. Visit the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.or Pg. 13

If a student is caught plagiarizing by the instructor before it is submitted to the College Board in May, the student will be subject to the school penalties of plagiarism. Plagiarism includes duplicating copywriting photographs or writing and/or art works in books, magazines, newspapers and on the internet and stating it is your own unique work of art or writing.   At U-Prep the student will receive an automatic 0 for the project and/or paper and will be suspended pending expulsion.  If the College Board finds that the student has plagiarized, the student will be automatically disqualified from the AP exam.  C10.

Formative assessment/Constructive Criticism:

Class Critiques: At the end of each month students will set their work up gallery style within the class. They will discuss their project with the goal in mind of getting better. Students will discuss findings, challenges and failures (which is a good thing) to increase group knowledge. The main objective for this practice is to observe, describe, and explain ways to improvement on skills and visual communication.

One on One Meeting: Students will get the chance to work with Ms. Wilhelm after a class critique.  During this time students will formatively assess work during and have the opportunity to render work during class time or on his/her own time. Students will also use the rubric included to determine what mark they would get with each individual work submitted. Students will use the AP studio art rubric/guide to determine and render their work accordingly.