AP Studio Art Drawing

AP Studio Art Drawing AP Studio Art: Drawing Syllabus 2010 – 2011 Ms. Goetz magoetz@cps.edu marigoldanne@gmail.com AP Studio Art is for highly motivated students who are seriously interested in the study of art; the program demands significant commitment. Students will need to work outside the classroom, as well as in it, and beyond scheduled periods. Students should be responsible enough to leave the art room or school if an assignment requires them to do so, and homework, such as maintaining a sketchbook or a journal, is a necessary component of instruction. As your instructor, my goals for our AP Studio Drawing Class are to: , Encourage creative and systematic investigation of formal and conceptual issues. , Emphasize making art as an ongoing process that involves the student in informed and critical decision making. , Help Students develop technical skills and familiarize them with the function of the visual elements. , Encourage students to become independent thinkers who will contribute inventively and critically to their culture through the making of art. , Help students explore post secondary options. , Direct the completion of an AP Drawing Portfolio that will be submitted and judged to gain college credit in the arts. Student Objectives , Maintain a strong work ethic. , Work through and solve visual problems effectively. , Refine the ability to draw/render what you see. , Understand how art elements and design principles communicate content. , Increase awareness of the creative process. , Increase knowledge of art tools and materials. , Pursue the art making process with a passion—be fearless. Student Learning: Activities and Strategies Units of study are presented to satisfy the Breadth requirement of each portfolio. Students will use a variety of mediums, techniques, and approaches in drawing to develop concepts and ideation Critiques and displays of work are ongoing. Students are expected to participate in class critiques of their personal work as well as the work of their peers and master artists. The vocabulary of art will be used to engage in written and verbal critiques of these works. Individual student critiques with the teacher will help students learn to analyze and discuss their own artworks and artworks of their peers. Individual conferencing will assist students in the development of their Concentration work. Students will develop a body of work that is an investigation of an idea or theme that is of personal interest to them. 1 Ongoing instructional conversations with the teacher will help students develop their work, assessing the strengths and weaknesses in their images, and will provide feedback on how they can further develop the Quality of their drawings. This will also help students learn to analyze and discuss their own artworks and the works of their peers. Recruitment officers from a variety of postsecondary institutions are invited to present candidate information and to evaluate portfolios on a regular basis. Drawing Portfolio Students will produce a minimum of 24 works that satisfy the requirements of the Quality, Concentration, and Breadth sections of the AP Studio Art Drawing Portfolio. Quality: this section of your portfolio will have 5 actual works that demonstrate mastery of drawing concept, composition, and execution. These may come from the concentration and breadth sections or may be independent of those works. Concentration: this section will contain 12 images of artworks (some may be details) that show a body of work investigating a strong underlying unified visual idea in drawing through theme, subject matter, or a style of personal interest of the student. Breadth: this section will contain 12 images of artworks (1 each of 12 different works) that demonstrate a variety of concepts and approaches to drawing. Drawing that show you are exploring and creating in various ways and with various mediums. Expectations The process of developing a portfolio requires a great deal of time and effort and the five 45 minute class sessions per week are markedly inadequate to create the amount of work necessary for the portfolio. There will be an open studio 2 days a week after school. The open studio is designed to provide concentrated work time in the studio with a teacher present as a resource. Open studio is not required but is highly recommended for success! Homework—Students may receive specific assignments or just be asked to spend time working on a particular in-class assignment at home. They should be prepared to spend four to eight hours a week outside of class on their work. Students will use a sketchbook as a visual journal to work through ideas, to practice drawing and design skills, and to record their journey through this year. Due to the amount of work students do outside of class, specific sketchbook assignments will not be made but it is expected that students will use their sketchbooks as tools for developing and recording their ideas. Artistic Integrity Students are expected to develop their personal imagery. Students are not allowed to copy published photographs or artwork of other artists. Work based on photographs or the work of other artists must move significantly beyond mere duplication and provide the basis for a personal approach to an idea. 2 Grading Student grades fall into two categories: class work/portfolio (70 percent) and lab conduct (30 percent). Class work/portfolio grade (70%) , Based on finished work as per assigned timeline , Graded using the evaluation rubrics as established by the College Board , Both volume and quality will be taken into consideration for final grades Lab Conduct (30%) , Regular attendance is mandatory. , Use of in-class time and after school creation lab , Attention to lectures, directions, and demonstrations , Participation in critical discussion and critiques of peer work and personal work , Proper safe use of materials and equipment , Cleanup duties, storage of work, and portfolio maintenance Supplies Most supplies and equipment will be provided by the school, but the following supplies will need to be purchased by each student: , Visual journal (sketchbook) , Thumb drive with significant storage capacity , Set of drawing pencils and erasers , Set of drawing pens , A portfolio with handles (for transportation of work from school to home) It is recommended (but optional) that students purchase a set of Prismacolor Colored Pencils (at least a set of 24). Student Text Drawing: Space, Form, and Expression, Wayne Enstice and Melody Peters, 3rd ed., 2003, Pearson Education. Selections from Teacher Resources Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, Susan Cahun and Zoya Kocur Ed., 1996, The New Museum of Contemporary Art ndArt Since 1940: Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg, 2 ed., 2000, Laurence King Publishing Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Emma Dexter et. all, 2005, Phaidon Press Juxtapoz: Art & Culture Magazine Advanced Placement Studio Drawing 3 Course Overview Week 1 Overview of expectations and supply lists. Drawing Portfolio Individual Portfolio Review—sign up for a time to meet with the instructor to discuss previous work that may be used for the AP portfolio. Week 2 Drawing Portfolio Movement through Mark-Making—experiment with a variety of mark-making tools and techniques to establish a sense of rhythm and movement in a nonobjective drawing (resources: Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, Alma Thomas, etc.) form that demonstrates a sense of rhythm and movement. Week 3 Drawing Portfolio Mark-Making Study in progress… (2 works due) and critiques Week 4 Drawing Portfolio Subtractive Charcoal Self-Portrait—with a combination of vine and compressed charcoal, use the dark field method to create a self-portrait (lay a field of charcoal over the entire surface of the page and use an eraser to create a range of values). Week 5 Drawing Portfolio Charcoal Self-Portrait in progress… (1 work due) Week 6 Drawing Portfolio Gesture Drawing—create a pen drawing of a person in his or her environment demonstrating your ability to capture reality and movement with relative speed and accuracy. (2 works due) and critiques Week 7 Drawing Portfolio Cross-Contour Drawing—experiment with cross-contour drawing using a variety of subjects including still-life objects as well as the human form. Week 8 Drawing Portfolio Cross-Contour Drawings in progress… (2 works due) and critique Week 9 Drawing Portfolio Fruit/Vegetable Drawing Series—create a series of drawings using colored pencils that capture the fruit or vegetable as it is in varying stages of ripeness to rottenness (or begin with the whole fruit and draw various stages of it being eaten). Week 10 Drawing Portfolio Fruit/Vegetable Drawings in progress… (1 series of works due) Week 11 Drawing Portfolio Perspective Drawing of Architecture on campus Week 12 Drawing Portfolio Perspective Drawing in progress… (1 – 2 works due) Week 13 Drawing Portfolio Perspective Drawing of Fantasy Architecture on Maps Week 14 Drawing Portfolio Perspective Fantasy Architecture in progress… (1 work due) Week 15 Drawing Portfolio Figure Drawing Unit—make a series of drawings utilizing a variety of tools and techniques. Week 16 Drawing Portfolio Figure Drawing in progress… ( 1 series of works due) Week 17 Drawing Portfolio Taking Breadth slides… Week 18 Drawing Portfolio Breadth Slides Due—portfolio review, slide show, and celebration of the first semester’s work. Week 19 4 Drawing Portfolio Concentration Section — begin or continue work on the concentration. Develop concentration topic based on personal interests or previous experience with a topic that you would like to explore further. Meet with teacher to establish goals and objectives for your concentration. Week 20 and 21 Drawing Portfolio Concentration Week 22 Drawing Portfolio Concentration (2 works due) and Critique Week 23 and 24 Drawing Portfolio Concentration Week 25 Drawing Portfolio Concentration (2 works due) and Critique Week 26 and 27 Drawing Portfolio Concentration Week 28 Drawing Portfolio Concentration (2 works due) and Critique Week 29 and 30 Drawing Portfolio Concentration Week 31 Drawing Portfolio Concentration (2 works due) and Critique Week 32 Drawing Portfolio Concentration Week 33 Drawing Portfolio Concentration (2 works due) and Critique Week 34 Drawing Portfolio Concentration - Taking slides Week 35 Drawing Portfolio Selecting quality work, preparing slides, matting/mounting quality work, finalizing concentration statement… Week 36 Drawing Portfolio AP Studio Art Exhibition—install show and hold opening reception. Remaining Weeks Drawing Portfolio Work and Slides Due—Portfolio review, slide show, and celebration of the year’s work. 5