AIP Samples

Through lines of inquiry relating to freedom, this student explores notions of liberty, personal choice, social constraints and familial obligations through various art-making forms and conceptual interests. The following pages are a mock sample for the Art-making Inquiry Portfolio, curated from a past student's process, which includes evidence from their visual journal, maquettes and mock-ups, process photos, and annotations.

A. Exploration and experimentation

This student uses their Visual Journal and digital tools to explore ideas, experiment with materials, and develop a personal visual style. They research artists, draw on personal content like family photos, and work with a range of materials. While the next two slides focus on exploration and experimentation, these elements also appear throughout other parts of their work.

B. Practical Investigation

The next three slides show tis students practical investigations of other artists’ work. They reinterpret Delacroix’s Liberty through digital sketches, explore Louise Bourgeois’ Maman to consider public space and audience, and study two artists’ drawing and painting techniques to inform a future brain-themed artwork. These investigations combine sketches, idea development, and written reflections on artistic influence.

C. Lines of Inquiry

There are two roles lines of inquiry may play in a students' work: the questions or generative statements that the student asks or poses 1) during the process of envisioning and making their work and 2) after the work has been completed,.

In the case of the student, since this is a mock example, we extrapolated lines of inquiry based on what the student's work revealed through her deep and rich process. With this in mind, certain aspects of this work might be further refined, including:

• the student's articulation of their path

• the integration of the inquiry questions or generative statements to guide their work

• how the process of inquiry leads to progression in their work?

D. Critical Review

Because the Portfolio is a holistic assessment, most screens in the curated assessment should meet more than one criterion. For that reason, you'll see two duplicate screens below. Not only do the student's annotations help to articulate their critical thinking, but a range of experiments demonstrate adjustments to their thinking and developments in their intentions. Here's a recap of how critical review is demonstrated in the screens below, in order of appearance:

1. The student discusses the refinements of their process, changes to their material choices as a result of practice, and reshapes their intentions when reviewing the final artwork.

2. After reviewing various steps of experimentation, the student follows up with next steps (in blue text) revealing critical thinking.

3. In both the middle and final screens below, the student includes evidence from their Visual Journal with brief annotations, including analytic comparisons and critical judgments.