Creating Schools of Excellence in the Arts Sponsored by the O’Donnell Foundation

1. Creating Schools of Excellence in the Arts Sponsored by the O’Donnell Foundation 2008- 2009 Art One Digital Portfolio Review

2. Art One Digital Portfolio Review Goals • Provide art students with the necessary skills to receive a passing score on the College Board AP Studio Art Portfolio and qualify for college credit • Improve and strengthen the Art One curriculum to provide high school students with a well-rounded foundation program for creating art • Increase the number of AP Studio Art students who are prepared to enroll in challenging AP art courses

3. Instructional Goals of Pre-AP Studio Art Based on 2007-2008 AP College Board Instructional Goals for Studio Art • 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 functions of the visual elements • Encourage students to become independent thinkers who will contribute inventively and critically to their culture through the making of art

4. Timeline September 4 APS Art One Portfolio Packet Distributed September 24 APS Website Art One Portfolio Submission Posted November 3 Art One Teachers E-mail APS Art One Student Count November 15 APS Email Art One Teachers Maximum-Minimum 9th/10th Grade Student Participation December 8 Art One Teachers Email APS Tentative List of Art One 9th/10th Grade Students Participating in Portfolio Review December 12 Art One Teachers Send Out Art One Parent Letter January 8 APS Art One Review Packet with CD’s and Student ID Numbers Sent to Teachers January 30 Art One Teachers Art One Students Registration Due to APS March 24 Art One Teachers Art One Digital Portfolios on CD due to APS April 4 APS/AP Teachers Digital Portfolio Reviewed by AP Teachers May 4 APS Art One Portfolio Scores with Feedback Forms Sent to Teachers May 19 APS Art One Exhibition on APS Website

5. Portfolio Review • Only ninth and tenth grade Art One Foundation students are eligible for review. • A panel of AP studio art teachers will be reviewing Art One digital portfolios on April 4, 2009. • Each portfolio will be reviewed by three AP Studio Art teachers and will be rated on the College Board exam scale of 1 through 6, 6 being the highest rating. • The review team will identify areas of strength and areas that need improvement on an evaluative feedback form to be given to each Art One student and teacher. • A certificate of participation will be awarded to each student and the top passing scores will receive prizes. • Selected works will be exhibited on the foundation website.

6. GRADING RUBRIC FOR A “6” • Is consistently of high quality, although not all pieces will necessarily be at the same level of expertise • Shows an imaginative, inventive, and confident articulation of design elements and principles • Uses materials effectively; technique is generally excellent • Demonstrates evidence of confidence and of verve • Shows a well informed composition

10. GRADING RUBRIC FOR A “5” • Generally strong, although there may be inconsistencies in overall quality • Shows evidence of thinking; i.e., it conveys a sense that it is about something and is fairly confident • Successfully engages with most aspects of technique and materials • Demonstrates a strong grasp of the elements and principles of design • Shows generally strong composition

13. GRADING RUBRIC FOR A “4” • Has some sense of purpose or direction, but it may not be fully resolved • Demonstrates some degree of success and shows some manipulation of ideas • Demonstrates a good understanding of the elements and principles of design • Has some technical aspects that are handled well or some ideas that are handled well, but the two don’t always mesh and work together • Shows a sense of technical competence

16. GRADING RUBRIC FOR A “3” • Shows a sense of real effort, but problems are not successfully resolved • May be more accomplished technically than it is conceptually • May not show the technical skills needed to resolve the ideas it addresses • Shows an awareness of the elements and principles of design • Shows ambition while achieving only moderate success.

19. CONTOUR: FIGURE OR STILL LIFE (3-D Permissible - must be linear) Strengths • Close observation of details using continuous lines • Shows understanding of proportion and form through use of line • Sophisticated use of line variation and weighted lines that suggest form and mass • Creative interpretation of subject matter • Successful composition

20. Contour

21. Portrait

22. Perspective

23. Value

24. Color

25. Sculpture

26. Art One Digital Portfolio Reading Each student will receive: • Feedback form filled out by the three judges reviewing the digital portfolio • Portfolio rubric form • Score of 6 will receive large portfolio with sketchbook and certificate • Score of 5 will receive large portfolio and certificate • Score of 4 will receive small portfolio and certificate • Score of 3 will receive a certificate • Score of 2 will receive a certificate of participation Each teacher will receive: • Data print-out sheet • Evaluation of Art One lessons/curriculum based student submissions

27. CONTOUR: FIGURE OR STILL LIFE (3-D Permissible) PORTRAIT (3-D Permissible) PERSPECTIVE (Interior or Exterior View) VALUE (Still Life) COLOR THEORY (Photography or Digital Permissible) SCULPTURE (Submit two views) Up to two 3-D works and one photograph or digital work may be submitted in the Art One Portfolio. 3-D works require two digital shots of two different views of the art work. 2008-2009 Art One Digital Portfolio Reading Participants who are in 9th or 10th grade are eligible to submit a portfolio of six works of art.. Seven to eight digital images of their art works will be submitted in a CD portfolio due to APS March 24 2009: