Schedule

Save the Date: June 22–June 27, 2008

The Advanced Placement Summer Institute will be held on the Columbus College of Art & Design campus in downtown Columbus, Ohio. (Click here for a information on our location and a map of CCAD's campus). For information on local dining options, visit www.experiencecolumbus.com.

Schedule for 2008 Summer Institute.

CCAD’s Advanced Placement Summer Institute studio art program provides both art educators and artists with a memorable and creative experience.

Course description

MORNING
Starting each day with coffee and tea, morning sessions are designed to stimulate growth through discussion, visual examples and kinesthetic learning.  The group will explore

Advanced Placement Studio Art content and have opportunities for break out sessions to address concerns based on their own experience level.

Formalize AP Studio Art (all)
Define resources for teaching studio art while exploring the breadth, concentration and quality aspects of the Advanced Placement portfolio.

Nuts and Bolts (beginners)
Get to know the “AP Studio Art Book”.  New teachers will be introduced to sample syllabi and portfolios gaining new ideas and clarity.

Portfolio Mileage (advanced)
Compare the AP studio art portfolio with college admissions expectations and strategize on editing each student’s work to create the right portfolio for the occasion.

Mystery of the 2D Portfolio (all)
The 2D Design portfolio is often misunderstood and confused with the drawing portfolio. In this session, participants will gain a better understanding of design driven portfolios and the importance of the artists’ intent.

Portfolios – Making choices (beginners)
Take a close look at 2D vs. drawing portfolios in concentration and breadth through reviewing actual AP portfolios.  Consider the idea of intent, investigation and advanced concepts as determining factors.

Sophisticated Scenarios (advanced)
We have all found ourselves with students struggling for clarity.  Using the written commentary as a development tool, work with colleagues to develop ways to reach your students, helping them to showcase their passion.

Concentration Clarified (all)
Experience the same process that students investigate as you work to clarify the purpose of a portfolio concentration.

Idea Generation (beginners)
Getting started is half the battle.  Learn to ask the questions that lead students to personal discovery and encourage conceptual exploration.

Building Observational Ideas (advanced)
How can you get students to develop strong concepts and produce skills based works?  Work together to generate a solid list of options to take back to your classroom.

Portfolio Concerns (all)
Review the details of the non-art related aspects of preparing and submitting student work.  Learn more about the College Board and college admission expectations.

What, Where, When and Why? (beginners)
Spend time becoming familiar with what it takes to “take the exam” in this hands-on session.

Life after AP (advanced)
Share and learn oodles of fun ways to keep your students engaged after their portfolios have left the building.

LATE MORNING
Explore breadth in Skill Builder Sessions.  These 2 hour-long sessions feature demonstrations and tips to take back to the classroom and include time for studio exploration to cement new knowledge.  Educators will select from the following options based on their own experience level and areas of potential growth.  Attend one session each day Monday – Thursday.

Sketchbook as Collaborator (available for all)
Use sketchbooks to facilitate idea development within your classroom.  Layers of images, words and color help students to understand the full potential of visual note taking to clarify concepts and keep ideas fresh.

Digital Design Basics (specifically for beginners)
This session will focus on getting started with digital imaging in the classroom.  With Adobe Photoshop, the computer becomes the medium.  Paint, draw, manipulate & combine images, use text and visual materials from almost any source to enlarge your ideas and those of your students.

Drawing Landscapes and Cityscapes (available to all)
Students may underestimate the validity of drawing what they know best, their surroundings.  Bring new life to the familiar as you explore the view from a window or the world from ground level.  Take back tips and inspiration to your students. 

Advanced Digital Artbox (specifically for advanced)
Are you savvy with digital design, yet constantly striving to find time to stay ahead of your young learners?  This session is for those with skills and a craving to expand.  Dive into the depths of Adobe Photoshop in this fast track session.

Getting Started with Figure Drawing (specifically for beginners)
Focus on the construction of figure drawing, including tips on the sensitivity of life drawing, model etiquette, and helping high school students understand the importance and professionalism in figure drawing. 

Cosmic Interiors (available to all)
Gaze anew at the depth of space.  Can you reinvent the common into a space for contemplation and growth for your students?  Charcoal, paper and a quiet mind bring this powerful project to any interior and the possibilities within.

Advanced Figure Drawing in the classroom (specifically for advanced)
This session is for those with plenty of figure drawing experience who are looking to bring their own skills (and then those of their students) to the next level.  Using a live model, focus on construction and advanced techniques to keep your students on a systematic track to success.

Assemblage & Installations with Color (all)
Drawing inspiration from contemporary artists this session pushes beyond traditional media into kinesthetic collaboration. Use nature and consumable materials to transform your classroom into a venue for concept, creativity, materials exploration and color discoveries.  Leave with ideas for creative play and team building with your students that could apply to individual works for AP studio art.

EARLY AFTERNOON
The early afternoon sessions tap into Special Topics.  These hour and fifteen minute-long lecture/discussions offer resources and tips to take back to the classroom as well as information to fuel personal art making in the late afternoon sessions.  Some sessions offer specific lessons, while others survey many ideas and engage the group in teaching and learning dialogue.  With a set topic on Monday, you will choose one session Tuesday - Thursday for a total of four special topics. 

Appropriation and Artist as Art Director (all)
Join this discussion about confronting ownership of imagery.  Come to talk about the differences between using photo reference, appropriation, and plagiarism.  Together we help our students learn to become their own art directors, using personal reference photos and well thought out concepts.

Recycling Art for Success and the Secret of Scale
When deadlines loom, how can you help your students increase their productivity? See before and after pieces with dramatic results, learn exciting strategies to rework existing pieces and create new drawings to maximize students’ time.

Thinking in the 3rd Dimension
You don’t need a big budget to incorporate sophistication into 3-D design.  Push students into the land of form and discovery with new materials, as well as old friends manipulated in new ways.

Still life as Commentary
Are you and your students bored with meaningless objects piled together as the subject for forced observational drawing studies?  Bring still life alive with meaning and intrigue as students build their own engaging subject matter resulting in observational drawings as commentary, loaded with personal expression.

Inspired Collage
Don’t sacrifice content or design as you transform findings and ephemera into collage work with a personal feel.  Walk through a visual exploration, adding layers of color, texture, pattern, pictorial images, found objects and most importantly, meaning to collage.  Teach your students to tell their own stories in powerful ways, organized through the principles of design.

Beyond the Usual Suspects
Allow individual expression to flourish beyond the “seen it, done it” concepts and results.  See student examples that use unique media and subject matter to open up new passageways to discovery.

3D Structure and Form
Starting with the translation of 2D sketches into 3D structures, this session will focus on creative problem solving and the underlying importance of form in 3D art.

LATE AFTERNOON
Focus on yourself as art maker in a semi-private studio environment. Delve into an exciting learning experience, which is equally concerned with process and product.  Define and refine your own mini-concentration of artwork with master educators as your mentors or choose to explore breadth first hand in these studio sessions.  Here you will create 2 or more new works and develop ideation for future works.

EVENING
Evening sessions will be filled with independent opportunities for inspiration and relaxation.

Encaustic Workshop
Join in on this fast-paced exploration of color and wax with National artist and educator CCAD President, Denny Griffith

Share Your Program and Learn From the Group
APSI participants are a huge resource to each other. Present the structure of your AP art program, a successful lesson or about your personal art practice to your colleagues.

Open Studio Sessions
Take advantage of this week for personal art making and development. Use the CCAD studios to develop your own concepts and to stimulate your own studio practice.

Canzani Center and Columbus Museum of Art, evening hours
Visit our student exhibition and our esteemed neighbor during the Thursday evening hours to view both collections and reflect on the power of art to inspire and transform.

Franklin Park Conservatory, evening hours
On Wednesday night you can visit this botanical jewel located just two miles east of downtown.

Wexner Center for the Arts, evening hours
Exhibitions feature the art and ideas of an international array of contemporary artists. Admission is FREE for all visitors.  The galleries are open Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 8 pm.

Fitness Center available
early morning into the night

Complimentary Yoga Classes
Unwind your mind and body with a licensed yoga teacher right on campus

Jump Drive Downloads
Take time to share resources, images and lessons that you bring and gather new digital files from your friends and colleagues.  We supply the jump drives – participants supply the content!

FINAL DAYS
Friday we will wrap up the entire week with valuable assessment information from the College Board, a mock scoring session and time to celebrate the week of accomplishments.

Equity and Access to quality educationEnd the week with a lively investigation and discussion about our students, the young art makers in the world community.  Knowing what we know, how can we provide opportunities for each young person to excel?

Assessment and Integrity: The Course Audit
Learn how the College Board is raising standards to support excellence in studio art education. Discover how the course audit supports your teaching goals.

Scoring the AP Portfolio
An experienced College Board reader is on hand to explain the process of scoring studio art portfolios. Participants will receive background information and walk through a mock grading session with student works.

Revisit the Week of Accomplishments Luncheon
Review your accomplishments and celebrate your colleagues in this last session to share.

Completion Ceremony and Recognition
In a gallery full of artwork created throughout the week, we will award the certificate of completion, enabling you to teach AP studio art and attesting to the rigor of your training.

For more information on CCAD’s AP Institute please contact:
     Brooke Hunter-Lombardi
     Educator Outreach Coordinator and College Board Consultant
     614.222.4039
     bhunter-lombardi@ccad.edu

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