New AP Portfolio Class by Sophie Kuipers
This year, AP Art Portfolio became a new AP class offered at Saugatuck High School! Mrs. Hanna teaches the class, and this year it has been running during first hour. AP Art Portfolio is a bit unique in terms of AP classes due to the fact that there are technically three different types of portfolios to choose from. These are AP 2-D Art and Design, AP Drawing, and AP 3-D Art and Design. Anyone taking AP Art Portfolio this year can choose which type of portfolio they would like to do, according to the type of art they are creating for the class.
Like any other AP class, the scoring for the final exam (or in this case, final pieces and investigation) is on a 1 to 5 scale, 1 being the lowest one can score and 5 being the highest. What makes AP Art Portfolio different from some other AP classes is that there are two parts that are graded and then combined to get the final 1-5 score. One part consists of a sustained investigation, where students must explore a guiding question, where they show practice, experimentation, and revision through 15 images. These images can be composed of both process images and final pieces. The other portion of the AP Art and Design Portfolio consists of 5 selected works. These 5 pieces are simply meant to display the artist’s skills, so they typically contain the artist’s best pieces, either from the sustained investigation or not.
Since the beginning of the school year, everyone in Mrs. Hanna’s AP Art and Design Portfolio class has been hard at work to create great pieces, while also following the portfolio due date set by the College Board. In class, there have been many great discussions, in addition to everyone learning lots of new information about art and artists!
Like any other AP class, the scoring for the final exam (or in this case, final pieces and investigation) is on a 1 to 5 scale, 1 being the lowest one can score and 5 being the highest. What makes AP Art Portfolio different from some other AP classes is that there are two parts that are graded and then combined to get the final 1-5 score. One part consists of a sustained investigation, where students must explore a guiding question, where they show practice, experimentation, and revision through 15 images. These images can be composed of both process images and final pieces. The other portion of the AP Art and Design Portfolio consists of 5 selected works. These 5 pieces are simply meant to display the artist’s skills, so they typically contain the artist’s best pieces, either from the sustained investigation or not.
Since the beginning of the school year, everyone in Mrs. Hanna’s AP Art and Design Portfolio class has been hard at work to create great pieces, while also following the portfolio due date set by the College Board. In class, there have been many great discussions, in addition to everyone learning lots of new information about art and artists!