AP 2D Design

This course is designed for the student who is looking to develop skills in a two-dimensional medium such as graphic design, photography, collage, and printmaking. Students will build their understanding and use of the principles of 2-D design as they create artworks that reflect their own ideas and skills. This course will focus on an investigation of materials, processes, and ideas that artists and designers use. Students will reflect and document their experiences to help inform their art and design work, explore materials, processes and ideas to use in their work, connect the work to art and design traditions, and evaluate works of art and design. Students will study the processes and techniques that artists and designers use when they create work and learn to interpret works of art and design through a variety of contemporary, historical, traditional and non-traditional contexts. Students will practice coming up with questions to guide them in creating work, through practice, experimentation, and revision. Emphasis will be placed on students to create work by choosing and combining materials, processes, and ideas, as they continue to use and expand on the use of elements and principles of 2-D art and design. Exploration of how artists and designers present their work to viewers and practice explaining how the materials, processes, and ideas were used in works of art will ensue. Students will describe how the work shows skills, and identify the questions that guided them in creating their artwork. Artwork should clearly identify how experimentation, practice, and revision were used. Various documentation techniques will be used and include but are not limited to photography, written reflections, video, and audio recordings. As a final requirement, students will create an art book monograph using Blurb(https://www.blurb.com/)and an artist website.