FEATURE
The AP Portfolio:
Creativity Brought to Life
Natalie Isberg
Sarah Wuh
Jade Foo
Each year, students from the three sections of AP Portfolio (AP 2-D/Photography Art and Design, AP 3-D Art and Design, and AP Drawing), submit their work to be judged and graded as their final AP project. In this year-long project, students have to conduct a sustained investigation in which they answer a question through their artwork, as well as write descriptions explaining and connecting each piece to one another and to their sustained investigation. AP Portfolio gives students the chance to pursue a concept using different mediums, and then express their art through their finished products and written responses. From sculptures, to acrylic paintings, to jewelry, or even scratchboard, artists deeply connect with their art through AP Portfolio.
Kaitlyn Mitchell What is your sustained investigation about? “I have Celiac, which [means] I can’t eat gluten. I share about how my allergy affects me on a day to day basis. Not only how it affects me daily, [but] how it affects me on the inside and mentally.” What has been your favorite piece to work on so far? “Personally, my favorite piece was a cardboard piece where I had to use a cross hatching technique and then use fabric and other pieces of cardboard to demonstrate how the food I ate tasted like cardboard sometimes.” When it came to learning new art techniques, did you learn them on your own or did your art teacher help you? “I mainly learned them independently or used what I already knew. But my art teacher has a bunch of art books, so he gave me one on Henri Toulouse, and I learned to develop that sense of Impressionism which was really fun.”
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Why do you think it’s important for people to know your condition through your artwork? “I just think that it’s not only me with the allergies, but just other people with conditions like this can possibly feel like it’s a joke to other people. Sometimes I find it funny when people make jokes and it is part of my personality sometimes. But overall, it is important to show and realize that there are deeper meanings behind these [works of art] and it’s important to show the processes that you have to go through to even get diagnosed.”
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