Writing for AP Studio Art
Question 1: Identify the inquiry that guided your sustained investigation. (600 characters including spaces)
Inquiry -act of asking for information
Do not:
Tell us what you didn’t do.
How you came up with your idea
Preach, or justify why your idea/concern is valid.
Try to be fancy, obtuse, or intellectual.
Talk about things that only a certain group would know about without giving some context.
Do:
Be direct and to the point
Write for the person who knows nothing about you and your work.
Focus on the observable things in your work.
Explain how your idea grew and evolved.
Writing format: Begin your writing with one of the following intro sentences and secondary sentences.
Intro sentence:
I wish to explore….
My work is inspired by my interest in exploring…
My work reflects my interest in discovering…
I want to discover ways I can express/illustrate/communicate…
Second sentence: (Why are you interested in the inquiry?)
I hope to discover/learn/create…
The completed works/portfolio will reflect/describe/illustrate/demonstrate my concern for/ideas about/interest in/understanding of….
Third sentence: (What artistic concerns did you to address)
I want to use/develop/express through..(insert one or more artistic skill or element/principle) as a focus in order to…. (restate your intention)
Question 2: Describe ways your sustained investigation developed through practice, experimentation, and revision. (600 characters including spaces)
Do not:
Describe how your year went
Continue to explain what your inquiry is
Preach, explain, or justify why your inquiry is what it is.
Try to explain each and every image
Do:
Use the words practice, experiment and revise
Tell us which works demonstrate your practice, experiment and revision, and tell us where we see it.
What did you practice and why
What it you experiment with and why
What did you revise and why
Not all works need to show practice, experimentation and revision
The key is to be sure you include in your writing how your doing of those three things helped guide your decisions and the development of your art.
Explain how one idea led to the next because of your practice, experimentation, and revision.
Writing format: Begin your writing with one of the following, and be sure to address all three- practice, experiment, revise. Include your “in order to” statement.
As I created my work I practiced…… in order to…… This can be seen in image# and #
I discovered…. as I experimented with…. In order to….. This can be seen in image# and #
In order to…. I revised… This can be seen in image# and #
As a result of struggling/discovering/finding that… this lead me to….
You will also need to include the following information about each work as your enter each image
Materials used (100 characters maximum, including spaces).
What did you use to make it (digital work should identify computer programs used)
Processes used (100 characters maximum, including spaces).
What techniques, methods of creation, technology, tools, computer programs can be listed here too
Dimensions (height x width [x depth, if 3D], in inches.
For images that document process or are details, enter NA.
For digital and virtual work, enter the size of the intended visual display.
If you are unsure give us a best guess estimate.
Image citation (100 characters maximum, including spaces). Provide proper attribution and/or citation of all pre-existing material. Formal APA or MLA citations are not required.
Where did your source images come from
Use personal imagination if you made up your own source material
Pinterest, google images, tic toc are OK but website names (not urls) are better
Any digital tools used (100 character maximum, including spaces).
Any use of AI software is not permitted and your portfolio will be flagged
Selected works writing
Ideas (100 characters maximum, including spaces).
Tell us briefly what each work is about.
What do you want us to know.
Materials used (100 characters maximum, including spaces).
What did you use to make it (digital work should identify computer programs used)
Ideas can often be included in this area
Processes used (100 characters maximum, including spaces).
What techniques, methods of creation, technology, tools, computer programs can be listed here too
Ideas can often be included in this area
Dimensions (height x width [x depth, if 3D], in inches.
For images that document process or are details, enter NA.
For digital and virtual work, enter the size of the intended visual display.
If you are unsure give us a best guess estimate.
Image citation (100 characters maximum, including spaces). Provide proper attribution and/or citation of all pre-existing material. Formal APA or MLA citations are not required.
Where did your source images come from
Use personal imagination if you made up your own source material
Pinterest, google images, tic toc are OK but website names (not urls) are better
Any digital tools used (100 character maximum, including spaces).Any use of AI software is not permitted and your portfolio will be flagged
General advice for writing:
Check spelling and Grammar, but it is not part of your score. Your writing just needs to make sense.
When filling out the info for each slide do not worry about complete sentences; lists are fine.
Its ok to abbreviate words to meet the character count.
Use numbers like 1, 12, instead of one, twelve.
You can have writing in the slide images. They will be considered. Do not write large paragraphs, they will not be considered.
In process/detail images its ok to point out with arrows, headers, or text boxes where you revised, practiced, and experimented in the slide.
AP will investigate and look for the use of AI generated images or writing. Your portfolio can and will be dismissed if you are found to use it in any step of the process. Teachers can also lose their AP credentials if AP finds it to be a significant problem with their students.