Class Expectations
AP Studio Art Three-Dimensional Design / Jewelry and Ceramics
Ms. Koury
Course Overview
AP Studio Art is a college level class designed for students who are seriously interested in the learning about and creating art. Students will submit a portfolio to the College Board for grading, and their grade/score can earn the student college credit.
Instructional Goals for Advanced Placement Studio Art can be described as follows:
- Emphasize making art as an ongoing process that involves students in informed and critical decision-making.
- Encourage creative as well as systematic investigation of formal and conceptual issues.
- Develop technical skills and familiarize students with the functions of elements and principles of art.
- Encourage students to become independent thinkers who contribute inventively and critically to their culture through the making of art.
The course does require more work than a standard art class would for the school year. The requirements are as follows:
- Completion of at least 16 pieces of your own art work
- Keeping a sketchbook [contains specific research as well as your sketches, etc.]
- Submission of a portfolio to the College Board; the portfolio has three sections, including breadth, concentration, and quality.
- Upload photographic images of their artwork into their portfolio space on the AP website for their AP Visual Arts exam
- Write an artist statement
Please note: The portfolio will be shot with a digital camera by the teacher and stored electronically. Student may be required to learn to edit the photographs in Photoshop, but with the aid of the teacher.
The Three-Part AP Portfolio [Breadth, Concentration, and Quality]
Breadth
In A.P. there is a part of the portfolio is called breadth.
- Breadth in three-dimensional design will involve learning about forms that take up space, create space, and exist in space. These types of forms usually have a top, bottom and sides.
- Breadth projects can be created from a variety of materials, and cover concepts of creating forms that are planar, structural, as well as those that involve mass, movement, the concept of tension, the local environment, or even the passage of time.
- As we explore these three-dimensional concepts, we will involve the elements of like line, shape, and space and principles of design such as balance, rhythm and repetition, unity and variety, and proportion and scale.
- Breadth projects will be completed using a variety of materials, including different types of clay, as well as metal, plaster, string, and natural materials like rocks or branches.
- Eight pieces are required to fill the breadth portion of the portfolio.
Concentration
The concentration part of the AP portfolio involves the students developing a body of work that follows a theme or concept of their choice. A few examples of a concentration are:
- A series of metal sculptures that investigate the elements and principles of design including line, shape, texture, balance, repetition, and unity and variety.
- A series of rings that investigate a use of elements and principles including form, positive and negative space, pattern and texture, and movement.
- A series of relief sculptures using metal or clay that emphasize figure-ground relationships.
- Assemblages of found materials embodying concepts that might include balance, tension, and unity and variety.
- These are only a few suggestions for the possibilities of a concentration. There are many others.
- Do note that students usually produce anywhere from eight to twelve pieces to fill the concentration portion of the portfolio.
Quality
The work for the quality section of the portfolio is taken from the breadth section or the concentration section. This work should demonstrate the student’s highest quality of work.The student will choose 5 pieces for the quality section of the portfolio.
Sketchbook
Each student is required to purchase a sketchbook to be used as a research workbook, as a place to sketch, and as a place to record ideas; it has to be a hardbound book, approximately 8”x10’ in size. Students will be shown two acceptable examples that could be purchased at a store like Michaels or Barnes and Noble. You will have some specific assignments for the sketchbook.
Classroom rules:
- Seating: please sit in your assigned seat. If at any time you are asked by the teacher to return to your assigned seat, please do so.
- Respect: be respectful to others at all times. Please use appropriate language inclass!
- Safety and the use of tools and materials: use tools and materials appropriately and as demonstrated in class. This is important for your safety, the safety of others, as well as to preserve the life of the tools and the work surfaces!
- Clean up your work area every day, as well as any area you used.
- Prohibited items: electronics such ascell phones, I Pods, as well as food and drink [water is o.k.].
Gradebook: Parents and students are able to log into Infinite Campus and check grades.
Assignments
- Projects/100 points each
- Worksheets/point value varies
- Designs/25 points per assignment
Grading Scale [Standard grading scale for projects and other assignments]
- 90-100=A
- 80-89=B
- 70-79=C
- 60-69=D
- 0-59=F
Final Exam Exemptions
Since this is an IB/AP course, students are not exempt from the exam unless they take the IB or AP test! The exam will be a review of student progress each semester. Students will grade their work on the appropriate IB or AP rubric; the actual rubrics utilized by each organization. Students will then write an essay justifying their grade on the rubric, and explain how they could improve their score.
Due Dates
I want students to succeed, so students will be given plenty of time to complete your assignments. Use your time wisely; it is your responsibility to complete your assignments on time! Use after school lab time to catch up if you fall behind.
Class projects are due on the due date. If you are absent, turn the work in the next time you come to class. Unfinished projects are to be turned in for a grade on the due date; it is better to get partial credit than to get a zero! All students have this option: if your project was unfinished, or you want to rework your project and turn it in to have it regarded, you have two weeks after the initial due date to do so!
Worksheets need to be made up within one week of the initial due date.
It is the student’s responsibility to find out what they missed due to an absence!
Other Information:
Lab Hours
Open lab is after school Tuesday and Thursday from 2:15-3:15; otherwise by appointment.
Fee
50.00 for the school year/can be paid in two 25.00 increments, for jewelry students. There is a 30.00 fee for ceramics students. Pay fee at bookstore by Friday August 8, 2014. Please bring Ms. Koury a receipt from the bookstore so she can record that you have paid the fee.
Pass Procedure
Students must ask permission to use the hall pass! After receiving permission, students must fill out the form on the pass before leaving the room and then take the pass with them! Students may not use the pass during demonstrations, class discussions, or quizzes.No bathroom pass use the first or last 10 minutes of class!
Tardies
CHS will be using SWEEP this year. Tardy students will be sent to the SWEEP room and will stay in that room for the remainder of the period.
General Discipline Information
You may receive a verbal warning, a phone call home, or a discipline referral if you choose to be other than courteous, or if you choose not to follow the classroom or school rules!
Ms. Koury can be reached at this phone number: 812-7884. Please leave a message. More information about Ms. Koury’s class can be found on her page within the school website.
Students and parent/guardian must sign this form; it is to be returned to Ms. Koury by the student on or before FridayJuly 25, 2014
I have read and am aware of the expectations for Ms. Koury’s IB/AP 3-D Design class.
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