:: FINE ARTS

Please note: The courses listed below are for the 2009 AP Summer Institutes. These course descriptions will remain posted for your reference, until December 2009.

Week One: July 13-16, 2009
Week Two: No Fine Arts institutes are held Week Two.

In the course titles below, “combined” means that the institute is open to both new and experienced teachers in that particular Pre-AP or AP subject.

Please note that participants in Pre-AP institutes are no longer required to purchase the AP Vertical Teams Guide. This text will be provided by the hosting institution as part of the course materials.

Please note that all Fine Arts institutes are held Week One.

FINE ARTS, WEEK ONE: July 13-16, 2009

AP Art History—combined

This summer institute is designed for both new and experienced AP art history teachers. The schedule begins with an introduction to the AP program and its numerous benefits, followed by an in-depth look at the 2009 AP art history exam. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in discussion and activities designed to review course content and devise exciting teaching strategies. Rather than providing a formulaic approach to teaching an AP art history survey course, this institute encourages teachers to customize an approach in accordance with their own personal strengths and their school’s demographics. The content of each year’s institute varies in response to pedagogical issues raised by the most recent AP exam.

Participants should bring the following:

A padlock (lockers available near classroom for your storage convenience)
Comfortable artist clothing & a light jacket or sweater (room temp. can not be adjusted)
comfortable shoes (walking to lunch and to/from parking garage)
A book bag might be helpful, as Doug has asked publishers to provide some books for you.

Lead consultant: Doug Darracott
Douglas Darracott received his B.A. at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and his M.F.A. in painting and drawing at the University of North Texas. In 2001, he was selected for a Fulbright to travel and study in central and eastern Turkey. He has also served as a reader and member of the test development committee for AP art history. During the past ten years, he has presented at workshops and summer institutes for the College Board and is the author of a teacher’s guide for AP art history, to be published by the College Board in 2008. He continues to enjoy working with teachers of all backgrounds interested in art history.

Pre-AP Studio Art (middle school)—combined

This Pre-AP workshop will be a valuable resource for teachers in connecting middle- and high school students to a higher level of learning in the visual arts. This summer workshop will give teachers the strategies and tools they need to engage their students in the development of art skills and knowledge at an early age. Teachers will have an understanding of Advance Placement Studio Art Program to help students to prepare a portfolio starting at the middle school level. The teachers will learn a variety of approaches to representation, abstraction, expression, and the investigation of the principles and elements of art standards. The workshop will provide lesson ideas for three levels; emerging, proficient, and advanced. These levels will not necessarily correspond to a particular grade level. Teachers will view a PowerPoint showing works in a portfolio demonstrating a breadth of conceptual compositional and technical works of art, to address a very broad interpretation of drawing, 2-D Design, and 3D issues. Photography, computer lessons, and Monotype printmaking will be incorporated in the activity lessons.

Participants should bring the following:

A padlock (lockers available near classroom for your storage convenience)
Comfortable artist clothing & a light jacket or sweater (room temp. can not be adjusted)
A digital camera (with appropriate USB device to download to an Apple computer)
A “flash drive” portable data storage device (to save and transfer our digital work)
A sketch book/notebook and other favorite drawing supplies/brushes

Lead consultant: Quiquia Calhoun
Quiquia Calhoun has taught AP Studio Art for 18 years of her 30-year teaching career with Oklahoma City Public Schools. While teaching at Northeast Academy for Health Sciences and Engineering, she has served as a College Board consultant for eight years. She has been an AP Reader since 2001. In addition, she was a Vertical Team writer for AP Studio Art and a panelist at the AP Equity Colloquium in 2003. Previously, she received a College Board Southwest Region Special Recognition Award, an Excellent Educator Award from Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation, and was a Teacher of the Year nominee in the Oklahoma City Public School District.

Introduction to AP Studio Art for new AP teachers

This Institute will cover all aspects of the AP Studio Art courses: Drawing and 2-D Design. 3-D Design will also be defined. We will discuss approaches to organization, assessment, photographing student artwork, the use of resources, the role of a visual journal and the rubrics for each course. Students’ personal voice in their work will be an important part of this workshop utilizing a multitude of curriculum ideas, implementing both hands-on experiences and visual examples. Participants will experience lots of making-art studio time! The three categories of each of the portfolios, Quality, Breadth and the Area of Concentration, will be viewed and studied. The ultimate goal of this workshop is to give teachers a complete foundation for which they can build or enhance a new class.

Participants MUST BRING the following for the experience of creating a Batik:

One bottle of navy or black Rit dye
Medium weight muslin fabric - 1 yard
One box of “Gulf” wax (canning supplies at your grocery store)

Recommended supplies:

A padlock (lockers available near classroom for your storage convenience)
Comfortable artist clothing & a light jacket or sweater (room temp. can not be adjusted)
Please also bring a flash drive for all these resources to be saved on your own flash drive.
8 oz –12 oz bottle of white glue (Preferably SOBO glue, however, Elmer’s will work!)
Glue stick
Scotch tape/masking tape
Sharpie Marker, regular & fine tip
Regular #2 pencil 4b/ or 6b pencil
Pencil sharpener
Erasers, kneaded and white (mars straetdler) & a retractable pencil type
Scissors & X-Acto knife
Chalk Pastels
Oil pastels box of 24
Prismacolor pencils or colored pencils
Watercolors (the small trays of Prang will be fine)
Assorted Paint brushes
Sketch book or used book to be converted to a visual journal
Charcoal- compressed
Work shirt or apron
Photographs, papers, collage materials, and magazines that may be cut up.

In addition to the art supplies above, below is a list of optional “share” items:

Digital slides, photographs or examples of your own work (small files-flash drive)
Slides, photographs or examples of your students’ work (small files-flash drive)
One lesson/unit plan, which includes an assessment practice and your favorite quote, website, artist, and art book. Please bring these items in a digital format (small file-flash drive) and in a MS word document.

Lead consultant: Kathleen Blake
Kathleen A. Blake has been teaching art for more than 30 years. She currently teaches high school art at Mount St. Mary High School in Oklahoma City. Kathleen has served as an AP Consultant for 11 years. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and has her master’s in Art Education. In 2003 Kathleen was awarded Oklahoma’s 2003 Art Educator of the Year, and The National Art Education Association recognized her as the Western Region Art Educator of the Year. The state of Oklahoma again recognized Kathleen, when she became a finalist for Oklahoma’s Teacher of the Year for 2003. In 2006, she received the Oklahoma Governors’ Award for her contribution to Arts in Education. In 2007 Kathleen was awarded the Oklahoma Medal for Excellence in Secondary Teaching by the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.

Kathleen has taught AP Studio Art for more than 15 years. She believes that thinking creatively is an asset in all walks of life. Her greatest passion is helping students realize their creative potential and guiding/teaching them to discover their own personal voice through innovative thinking, visual problem-solving and the process of making art.

AP Studio Art for experienced AP teachers: Drawing and 2D Design Portfolios

This course is intended for AP Studio Art teachers with three or more years of experience.

The class will include the following:

A review of the AP Studio Art Program, with discussion of the two portfolios and the three components of each portfolio
Discussion of the new digital submission process, including tips on digital photography
An examination of the grading process, with practice grading
A look at student work from each of the two portfolios
Ideas about how to approach the Concentration section of the portfolios
Ideas for the Breadth section of the portfolios
Discussion of Vertical Teaming in Studio Art
Sharing of successful lessons
A review of resources available to the AP Studio Art teacher
Hands-on activities to be taken back to the AP Studio Art class

Participants should bring the following:

A padlock (lockers available near classroom for your storage convenience)
Comfortable artist clothing & a light jacket or sweater (room temp. can not be adjusted)
Ephemera and other scraps for collage
A sketch book/notebook and other favorite drawing supplies and materials
An example of a successful lesson plan (or plans) to share with the group, with images of resultant student work. This should be brought in an electronic format if possible: on flash/thumb drive, CD, or email to chamananda@hotmail.com. Lessons will be compiled on a CD at end of the workshop.

* Basic supplies for hands-on activities will be provided. If you have your own tackle box of favored supplies and materials please bring it along, as well as ephemera and other scraps for collage.

Lead Consultant: Charlotte Chambliss
A native of Dallas, Texas, Charlotte received her B.F.A. (Drawing and Painting) from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas in 1984; she received her Teacher Certification in Secondary Art in 1997 from Texas A & M Commerce, Texas. Charlotte has been teaching classes in visual art at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts since 1989. She has taught AP Art History for 17 years and AP Studio Art for 14 years.

Charlotte has been a College Board Reader for AP Studio Art since summer 2000; since 2003 she has served as a Table Leader and Question Leader. She became a College Board Consultant in 2002. Charlotte has presented a variety of workshops on AP topics for several state and national school districts, as well as at numerous AP Summer Institutes across the country. From July 2002 through June 2006 Charlotte served as a member of the AP Studio Art Test Development Committee. From 2005 to 2008 Charlotte was a part of the College Board National Leader Program for Consultant Training and Endorsement, and she currently serves as a Mentor in the Mentor/Mentee Consultant Development Program. Charlotte was selected Booker T. Washington H.S.P.V.A. Teacher of the Year for 2000-2001. She also traveled to Japan in November 2001 as a participant of the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program.

You can e-mail Charlotte Chambliss at chamananda@hotmail.com.

AP Studio Art for experienced AP teachers: 3D Design Portfolio

This course will introduce and challenge Art Instructors to the fundamental elements and principles of producing the excellent portfolio for submission to the College Board. There will be hands-on projects and curriculum issues that set the standard for the highest quality of process and product. Participants will gain greater knowledge of the evaluation process and the best practices of outstanding instructors. Insight to the structure of the evaluation rubric and utilitarian nature of Standard Setting will be a significant part of this course offering. Three-Dimensional Design will be the focus of the entire workshop.

Participants should bring the following:

A padlock (lockers available near classroom for your storage convenience)
comfortable artist clothing & a light jacket or sweater (room temp. can not be adjusted)
a sketchbook and/or notebook
you may want to bring a camera

See the Course Syllabus.

Lead Consultant: Wylie Ferguson
Wylie has taught in the Cincinnati Public Schools for 35 years. He served as an adjunct in Art Education at Xavier University of Cincinnati for 14 years. He holds master’s degrees in Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York City, Sociology from Xavier University, and Art Education from the University of Cincinnati. His overall involvement with the College Board has been as a workshop consultant for both the Midwest Region and the Middle States region for the past 16 years. He has served as Steering Committee member for the Annual National Advanced Placement Conference. Other duties to which he has been appointed are as various as serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Reader for the annual evaluation of the AP portfolios, serving as presenter for the Smithsonian Institute for AP teachers, and conducting workshops for the College Board at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walters Museum of Art, and the Cincinnati Museum of Art. His most recent activities include serving as a Docent to both the San Diego Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Museum of Art. In his spare time he writes the questions for state-sponsored tests for beginning teachers. His most recent appointment with the College Board was to serve as Senior Auditor for the Curriculum Audit of AP Studio Art Drawing and 2D Design Portfolios.

Contact: wylieferguson@aol.com

AP Music Theory—combined

The AP Music Theory institute will focus on teaching strategies designed to develop student understanding of the materials and processes of music, including visual and aural analysis, sight-singing, melodic and harmonic dictation, and composition. Special emphasis will be given to creating a curriculum employing techniques and activities similar to those presented in the Vertical Teams Guide for Music Theory, published by the College Board. Significant critical, analytical, and creative thinking skills will be fostered, and the course will emphasize the synthesis of musical knowledge into usable musical understanding, especially with regard to music of the common practice period.

Participants should bring the following:

Comfortable artist clothing & a light jacket or sweater (room temp. can not be adjusted)
Comfortable shoes (walking to lunch and to/from parking garage)
A book bag might be helpful, as Terry has asked publishers to provide some books for you.

Lead Consultant: Terry Eder
Terry Eder will be the instructor of the Music Theory course. He is a choral conductor and teacher with over 30 years of experience at both the college and secondary levels. Dr. Eder is the Music Theory teacher at Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas, where he teaches Beginning and Advanced Placement Music Theory. He also serves as Lead Teacher for the O’Donnell Foundation’s Advanced Placement Music Theory incentive program involving eleven high schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, as well as two high schools in Abilene, Texas. He is a College Board consultant and has presented at several Advanced Placement Music Theory summer institutes and two-day workshops. He also participates in the Reading of the AP Music Theory exam each summer. Approximately 85% of the Music Theory students whom he has taught over the past nine years have received qualifying scores of 3, 4, or 5 on the AP Music Theory exam. Dr. Eder has also developed a one-day workshop on AP Vertical Teams in Music Theory for the College Board. He is writing an article on strategies for dealing with the sight-singing portion of the AP exam.