Components of
Anoka-Hennepin School District
Prepared by Kevan Nitzberg
Art Chair
Anoka High School
PART THREE - 3D Design Portfolio
Breadth, Concentration and Quality
The Studio Art Exam
•The Advanced Placement Program in Studio Art: 3-D Design is a performance-based visual exam.
•Each student develops and submits a portfolio that serves as a direct demonstration of achievement.
•The term "3-D Design" is used very broadly; a wide range of work can fit into this portfolio.
•Logically, work that is submitted for this portfolio will explore depth and space
-- that is, the issues of working in three dimensions. Content, style, and process are completely open.
•But whatever direction the student chooses, the work will address such issues as mass, volume, form.
• Any three-dimensional medium may be used for this portfolio.
• Because of the physical characteristics of work in 3-D Design, all three sections of this portfolio are
submitted in slide form.
• Although slides are less direct than looking at the work itself, documenting the work in this way
means that students are free to work as large as they like and with whatever materials they like.
•The portfolio they are required to produce for the Studio Art: 3-D is a performance-based visual exam.
• Each portfolio requires submissions in three distinct sections
Breadth
•The Breadth section shows the range of experimentation and experience in 3-D design.
•It is presented as 16 slides -- two views each of eight different works.
•In addition to the quality of the work, this section is scored on the degree to which it
actually shows a variety of approaches to 3-D design.
More works can be viewed at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
• The Concentration section shows the student's
in-depth commitment to an idea in art that is
personally fascinating.
• It is presented as 12 slides, some of which
may be second views or details of works.
• The emphasis is on a coherent idea and
development of an idea through a body of work,
in addition to the artistic success of the work.
By Colin Kelly
The John Cooper School
The Woodlands, Texas
Quality
•The Quality section promotes the development of a sense of excellence in art.
• For this section, students submit five works that best demonstrate excellence.
•Each work is presented by two slides showing different views, for a total of 10 slides.
•There are no preconceptions about what the work will look like-it may have been created quickly or over
a long period of time; it may be derived from observation, imagination, or a combination; some of the
five works may be related to each other, or they all may be independent.
By Catie Sweetwood
Holy Innocents Episcopal School
Atlanta, Georgia
More work is viewable at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
Studio Art 3-D Design Grade Distributions 2004:
Examination Grade
5
4
3
2
1
N
177
256
595
524
155
Studio Art 3-D Design
% At
10.4
15.0
34.9
30.7
9.1
Number of Students
3 or Higher / %
Mean Grade
Standard Deviation
1,707
1,028
2.87
1.10
60.2