1. Advanced Placement Studio Art
Breadth
Concentration
Quality

2. What is the AP Art exam? You will create and submit 24 artworks
at the beginning of May.
You will find out your grade in July.
24 artworks, submitted electronically:
12 Breadth
12 Concentration
From these 24 artworks, you will choose 5 to submit physically to the College Board.

3. Breadth Your first semester of Advanced
Placement Studio Art will be spent on
your Breadth portfolio entry.
This consists of twelve artworks which display your talent in a variety of styles, techniques, media, and subject matter.

4. Quality
After all 24 artworks are created, you will choose five to physically submit to the College Board.
These five artworks must display excellent attention to detail, composition, style, and use of media.

5. Concentration Your second semester of Advanced
Placement Studio Art will be spent on
your Concentration portfolio entry.
This consists of twelve artworks with one
OVER-ARCHING THEME.
This theme is a concept of your choice.

6. What theme will you choose?

7. Close up of insects in unusual place Anthropomorphic appliances
Concentration ideas
Close up of insects in unusual place
Anthropomorphic appliances
Family celebrations gone wrong
Figures at rest from an unusal perspective
Mechanical Dreamscapes
Objects emerging from deep shadow
People morphing into animals
People doing chores they dislike
Futuristic furniture

8. Concentration ideas Exploration of textures on decaying leaves
Cropped portraits of classmates
Twister Portraits
Junkyard Still Life
Crime and Punishment
Seven Deadly Sins

9. Concentration ideas Dance images The struggle to find oneself
Home in its coziest
Car Interiors
Childhood memories and objects
Toys/Games
Visions of the future of a school
Evolution of an item as it decomposes

10. Concentration ideas Foreshortened Figures or Objects
Things that make me cringe
Historical Events in a new light
Reflections of Images Within
Emotional Exploration
Things that come in pairs
“The Attic” childhood experience
Surreal Musical Instruments

11. Media You will choose your medium or media at a later date.
For now, you need to choose
an OVER-ARCHING THEME
for you to pursue
as your Concentration Idea.
Here are some artist concentrations
to think about.

12. Lyubov Sergeevna Popova
Concentration
Idea:
Cubist Portraits
Lyubov Sergeevna Popova

13. ZHU YIYONG Concentration idea:
Closeups of children playing cat’s cradle

14. Yuri Kudryavtsev-Dobrohotov
Concentration
Idea: Cubist
Russian
Landscape

15. Daniel Merriam Concentration idea:
watercolor fantasy anthropomorphic buildings.

16. Rob Gonsalves Concentration idea:
buildings morphing into other objects

17. Charles Burchfield Concentration idea:
Effects of rain on landscapes in neutral and dull colors

18. George Andreas Concentration idea: Negative states
of emotion in abstract

19. AP Studio Art Calendar for Digital and Physical Portfolio Submission
Duedates
9/1 Breadth 1
9/8 Breadth 2
9/15 First Idea Proposal for your Concentration
9/22 Breadth 3
9/29 Second Idea Proposal for your Concentration, refined
10/6 Breadth 4
10/13 Breadth 5
10/20 Breadth 6
10/27 Final Idea Proposal for your Concentration with description of all twelve images
11/3 Breadth 7
11/10 Breadth 8
11/17 Breadth 9
11/24 Concentration 1-6 sketches with descriptions
12/1 Breadth 10, Art show design idea
12/8 Breadth 11
12/15 Breadth 12, Final Exam/Art Show Display due December 16!
1/5 Concentration 7-12 sketches with descriptions, Art Show is January 6, 3-7pm!
in the Media Center
1/12 Concentration 1 is due today!