Summer Homework AP Studio Art: 3-D DESIGN

*The following 3 boxes should be “checked off” and complete by the first day of school!! You will bring in your projects by the end of the first week.

❏ Get a Sketchbook and start collecting!! Clippings from magazines/catalogs/internet, sketches, notes, interesting found objects/textures/colors, etc.

❏ Create 2 projects over the summer!! These will hopefully fit in your BREADTH section of the portfolio. Experiment with materials and new ideas and processes. See attached pages for ideas!

❏ Find 3 artists you admire! Record the names of 3 artists whose work is interesting to you - may or MAY NOT be a ceramic artist! May or MAY NOT be alive. May or MAY NOT come from the list attached.

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Project Ideas

Clay Projects Morphed Figure: Think of the two different objects/items and morph them together somehow. They should be made to be ONE sculpture, and not two. Medium is your choice. Example: human arm/wrist turning into a dragon.

Create a 3-sectioned cylindrical vase. Add texture to the main body by using burlap, texture stamps, etc. Incorporate negative space by cutting out a section in a geometric or organic shape that complement the form of your vase.

Using the coil method, build a bottle that is either clearly organic or geometric in form. You may smooth the coils entirely or you may use a combination of visible coils and blended coils. Think about incorporating a slab section into your project.

Research ceramic vessels that are a combination of hand-built and wheel-thrown sections. Build a textured pocket vessel that incorporates wheel thrown spouts. Use incised decoration or textured impressions to form an interesting surface.

Build a slab vessel that incorporates a face. Think of a container that would hold secrets and incorporate a face into the vessel design. This should be a symbolic piece. References: Raul Acero, Kathy Triplett

Figure in Clay: Create a person or figurative sculpture. It might be realistic or abstracted, whimsical or symbolic. References: Mark Kostabi

Create a face casting project that represents two sides of your personality.

Texture drape slap pot. Work with the draping qualities of clay and create an organic shape. Incorporate texture as well. Using any debris from your life (clothes, paper, food, containers, cosmetics, reading material) assemble the materials into a life-size self portrait bust, actual or metaphorical, in relieve or in the round. You can use any means available to attach materials.

Evolving Form: Create three objects whose forms are related yet different from each other. Each object must be at least 8 inches high. Can be vessels, figures, or abstract form.

Using clay, sculpt a 3 dimensional self-portrait bust, or a portrait of a family member or friend.

Enlargement Project: Select a subject that is typically small, such as a paper lcip, nail clipper, wrist watch, corkscrew, bugs, etc. and recreate the subject on a giant scale. Make a soft sculpture by cutting fabrics and flexible materials, which are then sewn, stuffed, stitched, and decorated. or create a large rigid structure by using cardboard. Reference: Claus Oldenberg Creature Skulls: Select a mythological character or legendary beast (i.e. Big Foot, Lochness Monster, Cyclops, etc). Using clay, create the skull, skeleton, or anatomical fragment of the beast.

Surreal Prize Winner: Make up an imaginary event that would rival a performance in the Guiness Book of Records (or choose an actual record from the book itself). Create a trophy, monument, or shrine that recognizes and pays tribute to the achievement.

Cups, bowls, plates thrown on the wheel emphasizing inventive form

Hand-built ceramic cessels, coil and slap emphasizing inventive form

Ceramic bird house. Or some other animal’s house - be CREATIVE!

Figures and animals from clay or other materials (welded metal, found objects, natural materials)

Organic sculptures inspired by the work of Hepworth, Moore, or Noguchi.

Create a Totem Pole. It could be in the traditional Native American style or inspired by the Bauhaus or the Art Deco style. Make it about you, like a biography.

Metamorphosis: Create a sculpture of an organic form evolving into a geometric form

Seeds: Create forms that evolve from seedpods or legumes.

Caricature: distort proportions or enlarge parts of the human figure/face and create a sculpture.

Non-Clay Projects

Trash to Treasure: Find an interesting object from the garage, attic, flea market, or second-hand store. Transform the object by covering its entire surface with textural materials: mosaic, pebbles, glass, yarn, paper, sand, photos, rope, coins, marble, small objects, etc.

Assemblages of found materials Using only natural materials (twigs, grasses, pods, stones, leaves) and twine or string, create a container for an object that has special meaning fo you. The container must be at least 10 inches in one of it’s dimensions. Using either popsicle sticks, wooden matches, toothpicks, dowel rods, mat board, cardboard, or any combination of the above, create an architectural model for a house, city skyscraper, or a museum of modern art to be built in the year 2075. References: Frank Gehry, Robert Centuri, Frank Lloyd Wright Phillip Johnson

Create a 3-dimensional sculpture from found objects. References: Pablo Picasso, Julio Gonzalez, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Rauschenberg

Transform an ordinary shoe into a symbolic monument. Get an old shoe or boot from the basement, attic, or local flea market. Select a theme from the following list or make up uour own subject: Ode to Albert Einstein, Ode to Marilyn Monroe, Ode to Pablo Picasso. Embellish the shoe with the elements to portray the theme (i.e. add papier-mache wings, minature toys, coins, lights, coins, etc.).

Morphed Figure: Think of the two different objects/items and morph them together somehow. They should be made to be ONE sculpture, and not two. Medium is your choice. Example: human arm/wrist turning into a dragon.

Create a wind driven sculpture

Rhythm Study: Construct a sculpture that uses at least 500 pieces of the same small common object, emphasizing movement.

AP Artist List

Magdalena Abakanowicz Marilyn Levine Carl Andre Sol LeWitt Robert Arneson Maya Lin Gian Lorenzo Bernini Richard Long Chakaia Booker Marisol Louise Bourgeois Ana Mendieta Kendall Buster Lazlo Maholy-Nagy Debra Butterfield Henry Moore Alexander Calder Juan Munoz Anthony Caro Isama Noguchi Elizabeth Catlett Bruce Nauman John Chamberlain Louise Nevelson Dale Chihuly Claes Oldenberg Eduardo Chillida Coosje can Bruggen Christo & Jeanne- Claude Judy Pffaf Joseph Cornell Adrian Piper Tony Cragg Gio’ Pomodoro Stephen DeStaebler Marin Puryear Mark di Suvero Robert Rauschenberg Tara Donovan George Rickey Marcel Duchamp Ursula Von Rydingavard Dan Flavin Betty Saar Lucio Fontana Kurt Schwitters Viola Frey George Segal Frank Gehry Richard Serra Andy Goldsworthy Joel Shapiro Nancy Graves Sandy Skoglund Red Grooms David Smith Ann Hamilton Kiki Smith David Hammons Renee Stout Joseph Havel James Surls Barbara Hepworth Lenore Tawney Eva Hesse Robert Terrell Alan Houser Anne Truitt Luis Jimenez Peter Coulkos Donald Judd Minako Watanabe Jan Kaneko Patti Warashina Edward Kienholz Rachel Whiteread Jeff Koons Jackie Windsor Henri Laurens Frank Lloyd Wright