SyllabusAP Studio Art2011-12
John BrandhorstOffice Hours: Mondays 3:30-4:30pm
Art:AP Studio Art
Textbook: Entire art library will be utilized as necessary
Course Description
The Advanced Placement Studio Art course is a year long course intended for highly motivated and prolific student artists as a platform for submission of the AP studio Art portfolio. The course is highly individual and places great pressure on the student to create a body of technically excellent works of art. The course will expose students to all aspects of the world of art including production, materials, techniques, economics, exhibition, portfolio preparation, aesthetics, critical processes, and history of art.
Course Objectives
The AP Studio Art student will create a fully realized portfolio that fulfills the AP Board requirements, participate in competitions, exhibitions, and collaborative efforts, and research and communicate using correct and lucid terminology the intentions of their production and artworks in the world at large. AP students are expected to contribute their talents to the larger aesthetic purposes of the school.
Content
The AP course will support three different paths to participating students. Students must choose from three basic portfolios addressing two-dimensional mixed media works, drawing, or three-dimensional work. Opportunities for interdisciplinary work are encouraged. In each type of portfolio students will produce works that evidence mastery in a broad range of styles and media and will also produce a singular series of related work in a section known as the “concentration”. All work done in the class is intended to focus and support the execution of an exceptional concentration section as it serves as the magnum opus of the student’s artistic production.
Dates to Remember
Deadlines for first semester will be set by the instructor. All first semester work must be complete and documented in slide and digital format by the exam period at the end of the first semester. Second semester deadlines will be negotiated by the instructor and the members of the class with all work completed and documented by the third week in April. A culminating exhibition will be held during April and is a mandatory component of the class. All students must exhibit new work at this event.
Materials/Equipment/Resources
AP projects will survey a broad range of materials as necessary and specified by the instructor or by the student. Experimentation is encouraged and rewarded. Resources for class and project research are provided in the form of the classroom art library, but students may draw from whatever source they may find to influence, inform, and inspire their work.
Evaluation
Evaluation for the course will be handled in the critique and will be based on meeting deadlines, relative excellence of work as determined by the established rubrics, use of time in class, use of materials, and the student’s ability to defend their process and production in written and oral presentation.
Grading System
Projects (finished artwork)25%
Projects (written andverbal)25%
Research (visuals and sketches25%
Participation (critiques and events)25%
Rubrics for the course will be specified by the instructor and supported by the assessment rubrics on the College Board/ AP Studio Art website.
All work will be turned in. Late work will receive a penalty of 10% per day after the specified deadline. Students are responsible for all work and information in the event of an absence. No extensions will be granted except by special arrangement with the instructor.
Some monetary expense will be incurred by the student for purchasing special materials, all documentation, necessary individual exhibition costs, and competition entry fees.
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