Summer Work: Each student in AP art must complete this summer assignment no matter your portfolio type or year of study.
- Paragraph 1: Write about how your artwork could impact another’s thinking or feeling. Write about what you want to say with your artwork, and what it means to you in the larger sense.
- Paragraph 2: Write about three (3) important issues that concern you. These issues should be something that is a general issue or concern in society. Some ideas you might be concerned with depicting might be pollution, environmental concerns, abortion rights, racism, homelessness, SIDS, religious war, religious discrimination, poverty, verbal abuse, bullying, depression, teenage suicide, discrimination, etc. What do you care about? Consider whether anyone you know has been affected by any of these? How? Why? How did it affect them? Or they could be stories that you have heard about that affected you.
- Concept sketches: For each idea, create a “plan” for a larger work of art. Draw what it will look like. If it is 3D, draw multiple views. Discuss the medium, the scale, the color, the way it will be displayed, etc. Each plan should fill a 12”x18” piece of paper. Follow the directions on planning your work on this link and will be part of our first critique on week one.