(Workshop Full for 2019) Art and Design - ARTS.1245

About the Workshop

The objective of this course is intended to provide both new and experienced Advanced Placement Art and Design teachers with an understanding of the requirements of the Drawing, 2-D Design, and 3-D Design portfolios. Participants will learn about the standard setting and grading rubric for each of the three portfolios. A detailed explanation of the AP® Art and Design reading will be provided.

The first section of the exam is the Sustained Investigation. Time in class will be spent on how to help your students find personal questions that will help them guide their inquiry. Students will be required to submit 15 digital slides which show their ideas, processes, and revision in their Sustained Investigation. Students will also be required to write about each of these works, what materials they used, how they used these materials and the ideas behind the work. The Sustained investigation will account for 60% of the exam grade and their written component will be part of that grade.

The other section in the redo of the AP® Art and Design course is the Selected Works. Each student will be asked to submit their actual best 5 works in both Drawing and 2D Design portfolios. In the 3D Design portfolio students will be required to send two digital slide views of their five best works. The five works students submit in Selected Works can be from their Sustained Investigation, but they do not have to be. Students will also be required to write about the work they submit in this section. The Selected works section will account for 40% of the final exam grade. The written component will be part of that grade.

Time will be spent helping teachers understand what is necessary to be accredited to teach AP® classes. Emphasis will be placed making sure teachers understand the importance of equity and access for all students.  Participants will discuss how to guide students into the higher level thinking skills required to successfully complete an Art and Design portfolio. 

Workshop Full for 2019

About the Instructor

  • Alison Youkilis

    Alison Youkilis

    Alison Youkilis is an Adjunct Professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Before moving on to the university level, Alison was the department chair at Wyoming High School where the art program received the Rockefeller Brothers Award for Excellence as well as the Presidential Commission of the Arts National Recognition Award for Humanities. Her AP® Studio Art students had a 100% passage rate. For the past fifteen years, Alison has been a reader and a table leader for the AP® Studio Art exam. Her consulting work for both the College Board® and International Baccalaureate has taken her throughout the United States and internationally to China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Dubai.