AP 2-D Art and Design Syllabus

Scoring Components:
2.A This course teaches students formulate questions that guide a sustained investigation
through art and design
2.B This course enables students understanding in conducting a sustained investigation
through art and design that demonstrates practice, experimentation, and revision guided by
questions.
2.C This course supports the making works of art and design that demonstrate synthesis of
materials, processes, and ideas.
2.D This course supports the making works of art and design that demonstrate 2-D skills.
3.A This course teaches students to identify, in writing, questions that guided a sustained
investigation through art and design.
3.B This course supports student learning to describe, in writing, how a sustained investigation
through art and design shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision guided by
questions.
3.C This course teaches students identify, in writing, materials, processes, and ideas used to
make works of art and design.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course has been developed to accommodate students who have expressed an interest in
completing the AP 2D Art and Design Portfolio. All content contained in this syllabus meets
the requirements as stated in the student exam brochure. Through direct teacher instruction
students will create a portfolio of work to demonstrate inquiry through art and design and
development of materials, process documentation, and written information about the work
presented.
In May, students will submit portfolios for evaluation based on specific criteria, which include
skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas and sustained investigation through
practice, experimentation, and revision, guided by questions.
The AP 2-D Art and Design course is designed to be the equivalent of a one-semester,
introductory college course in 2-D art and design.

Prerequisites
AP 2-D Art and Design is for all students who are interested in inquiry-based thinking and
making. Prior experience in course work at Holy Innocents Episcopal School is encouraged.
Such courses include Foundations of Art, and any level one, two, three and or Coding for Art.
AP Course Skills:
The AP 2-D Art and Design course will address the following learning outcomes:
The ability to
(1) conduct a sustained investigation through practice, experimentation, and revision, guided
by questions.
(2) skillfully synthesize materials, process, and ideas.
(3) articulate in writing, the information about one’s work.

Course Content:
The AP 2-D Art and Design course is structured by Big Ideas, Essential Questions and
Understandings, and Learning Objectives and Essential Knowledge. The Big Ideas structure
student’s development of understanding and skills, enabling them to connect what they learn
with prior knowledge and experiences from other courses.
Big Ideas:
1. Investigate materials, processes and ideas.
2. Make Art and Design
3. Present Art and Design
These big ideas will be sustained throughout the course woven into each unit of learning.
Essential questions are open ended queries intended to provoke thought, inquiry, discussion
and understanding related to the big ideas. Essential questions offer opportunities for students
to consider evidence, challenge assumptions, and support their ideas. Enduring
understandings are long-term understandings related to the big ideas. They are responses (but
not answers) to essential questions. Students develop enduring understandings over time by
learning, applying and connecting knowledge and skills throughout the year. These essential
questions and enduring understandings will be woven throughout the course in each unit and
explored through sketchbook, practice, experimentation, research, documentation, class
critiques and revision.
Learning objectives define what students need to know and do to develop enduring
understandings and course skills. Students’ achievement of the course learning objectives is
essential for success with the AP 2-D Art and Design Exam. Each learning objective will be
accompanied by an essential knowledge statement that describes the specific information
students need in order to demonstrate each learning objective that will defined in each unit of
study throughout the course.

AP 2-D Art and Design Portfolio Exam Structure:

The portfolio contains two sections. Requirements and prompts.
Selected Works Section: requires students to demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials,
processes, and ideas using 2-D art and design skills.
Five physical or high-quality printed reproductions of physical works (40% of total score) Scoring
criteria from rubric skills (2.d), (2.C), (3.C).
For each selected works state the following in writing.
1. Idea(s) visually evident. 2. Materials used. 3. Processes used.
Sustained Investigation Section: requires students to conduct a sustained investigation based
on questions, through practice, experimentation, and revision.
Fifteen digital images that demonstrate: Sustained investigation through practice,
experimentation, and revision. Sustained investigation of materials, processes, and ideas.
Synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas. 2-D skills 60% of total score) Scoring criteria from
rubric skills A (2.A), (3.A), B (2.B), (3.B), C (2.C), D (2.D)
State the following in writing for SI section:
Identify the questions that guided your sustained investigation. Describe how your sustained
investigation shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision guided by your
questions.
Units of study: Three per quarter.
Quarter 1: 9 Weeks

Pre assessment “Sarvodaya – What is the world we wish to see?” Students will
demonstrate their understanding of research, experimentation, process and
ideas in this first piece so facilitators can assess what students know or the skills,
knowledge and understanding they are coming in with.

Unit 1 (skills 1.A, 1.B)

Unit 2 (skills 1.D, 1.E)
Unit 3 (2.A

Course Schedule
Modified block scheduling is used. Classes meet three times per week for 60 minutes, with a
tutorial period every day after lunch for 30 min. The course focuses on both sections of the
portfolio Sustained Investigation and Selected Works throughout the year. The class work will be
combination of teacher and student driven. The studio work will be based on a variety of
collected experiences based on building 2-D art and design skills, experimentation with a variety
of media and a variety of both conceptual and physical approaches to process of materials and
idea as well as the documentation of those experiences, commonly encountered in college-level
2-D design courses. The students have specific in-class and out of class assignments; they also
are expected to complete some in-class work out of class, depending on the schedule of
assignments. The following is a list of assignments I regularly use:

Critiques:
Critiques are an integral part of all classes. All students are brought together for critiques at
regular intervals, generally when they have finished or in process work to discuss and evaluate. a
Each student must show his or her work and briefly discuss his or her materials, process and
ideas. The class is then expected to ask questions and offer suggestions for clarification and or
guidance on work that is in process or is complete. All students participate. The vocabulary of art
is introduced through the foundation classes and is reinforced through the verbal and written
critique and show reviews. We have class critiques on the day the work is due. This process will
take three class periods since all of our AP Art and Design students from all three facilitators will
be working together to provide feedback on work. The critiques will be guided by the vocabulary
in the AP Art and Design rubrics. These critiques will occur using a computer and screen to
project the work. The facilitators will be taking notes for each student as the work is being
discussed so the student may then choose to revise the work based on the questions from their
peers. Each student will then upload all work from critique in to Canvas for grading. Work can
always be revised for a higher score at any time up until the final upload to the College Board.

Open Studio Hours

Because we meet only three times per week students will need to utilize tutorial time.
Open Studio hours will be every day during Tutorial from 1:35- 2:05 (5day week, 1:25-1:50 4day
week) and Office hours 3:05-3:35 every day. Students are encouraged to attend open studio
hours at least once a week if not more to work on process, experimentation, documentation or
any other aspect of the course they need.
Homework studio practice
Students are encouraged to practice and maintain an at home studio practice. Students are
expected and should be prepared to spend three to five hours a week outside of class on their
studio practice.

Artistic Responsibilities
Staying on task and devoting your utmost attention to your work is very important for success
in this course.
Searching for what arouses your curiosity. Make your work about the things that interest you
and keep you up at night. Pursue your work with passion; do not settle for an unresolved
problem. It is your responsibility to make your work personal and important to you.
PLAGIARISM STATEMENT:
Copyright Issues, Artistic Integrity, Ethics and Moving Beyond Duplication:
Students are discouraged from working from published or copyrighted photographs or images
of any kind. Students are allowed to work from photographs they have taken themselves. If a
student does work from a published or copyrighted image, the image must be significantly
altered so that it does truly become his/her own, in the student’s own artistic voice, and in the
student’s own personal style and expression. Mere duplication of another person’s image, even
in a different medium is not allowed. Students are always encouraged to work directly from
their own vision and unique personal imagery, whether it be direct observation, imagination,
memory, with or without the aid of their own original photographs, or any combination of the
above. A detailed discussion of plagiarism, fraud, and issues of artistic integrity will take place
in class. Ongoing 1 on 1 discussions as well as group discussions will take place throughout the
course. All students submitted work must be original in nature. Work that is based on
published photography or another artist’s work in not acceptable. The intent of Advanced
Placement Studio Art is to develop a student’s personal voice and vision. Submitting work that
is unoriginal would be contrary to that ideal.

DAILY EXPECTATIONS:

1. Be present-contribute to discussions, participate in course activities, use class time

efficiently
2. Be on-time, prepared, engage and persist in art experiences
3. Complete all homework and class work with 100% effort and work on self-evaluation and
improvement.
4. Be responsible for tools, supplies, and studio work area
5. Respect all people, materials, artwork in the art room
6. Do your part to ensure the class runs smoothly-be careful not to distract other students
7. Clean up after yourself, cheerfully, and without reminders
Recommended Reading:

 Kaupelis, Robert. Experimental Drawing. 30th Anniversary Edition. New York: Watson-
Guptill Publications, 1992.

 Lauer, David. Design Basics. Ninth Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2015.
Maslan, Mick and Southern, Jack. Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of
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 Drawing Projects. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011.
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 Stewart, Mary. Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design,
Fifth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2014.
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 YouTube Channel. “The Art Assignment.” Accessed February 1, 2017. https://www.
youtube.com/user/theartassignment.
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