AP 3D Design SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS
Mrs. LaQuaglia
By the beginning of May, 2015 you will need to submit five original pieces to the College Board that display good composition,
craftsmanship, and design skills. In addition, you will need to submit 12 works in your concentration (thematic work of choice) and 8
works demonstrating a range of projects showing a variety of principles of design, materials and art processes (breadth). In other
words, you will need 20-25 high quality pieces. We CANNOT do all of this during the school year, so the more you work on this
summer, the better off you will be. Doing a little work up front will keep you from being stressed at the end of the year!
This summer you will create:
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An Idea/Inspiration Box
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4 Quality Pieces (one is based on an artist from your artist pages (see below)).
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3 Artist Pages
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Sketchbook Assignments
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL JULY TO START!!!!
Activity suggestions: I know it’s easy to get lost in “summer”! One way to keep on track is to plan artistic
outings. Make a date with a friend or fellow AP student to go on a hike- take a sketchbook. Go to a
museum, art galleries or art openings and get inspired! Go to the library or book store and roam the art
books. Take your sketchbook everywhere you go. You never know where you will find inspiration.
Become familiar with the AP College Board website:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2135.html
This page has links to student artwork from previous years. Look at it to see the level of rigor and creativity you are expected to meet
and get ideas!! Look at the work in both links for concentration ideas!!!
Please email me at [email protected] if you have any questions. I check my school email frequently during the summer! I
will be conducting a few summer studio hours in the art room. This is a FANTASTIC opportunity for you to come ask questions,
work on some of your quality pieces, just to do some free drawing or painting, or pick my brain for ideas. The art room will be open
to you on the following dates from 10 am -2 pm:
Wednesday, June 4th
Wednesday, June 18th
Wednesday, July 9th
Wednesday, July 23rd
GOOD LUCK and HAPPY CREATING!
– Mrs. LaQuaglia 
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS:
(These are due the second day of school. Summer Assignments are worth 10% of your grade and will put you off on the right foot for
the year, so take it seriously.)
Idea/Inspiration Box:
All summer, collect anything and everything that is any way inspirational or appealing to you. Print out
your Pinterest boards and gather pictures of things, found objects, scraps of fabric, small mementos,
photos you take, items from vacation spots, pages from magazines, etc. and put it all in a box. Avoid
anything cheesy or overly sentimental (movie ticket stubs, dried prom flowers). The objects themselves
should be making you want to pick up a pencil and draw, not just remember an event or time fondly.
If you are ever stuck for an idea, we can look through your box to find something to get you going
again. We also will need materials and found objects to be used in sculptures themselves.
4 Quality Assignments:
Assignments 1-3: Create three sculptures using three different sculptural processes.
Choose from the six following processes:
Additive
Subtractive
Modeled
Assembled
Woven
Cast (using a mold)
Each artwork should take a minimum of 10 hours, display forethought, good composition, exceptional
craftsmanship, have mature subject matter (avoid trite, overused symbols), and be no smaller than 6"
in one dimension. Good composition means consider the elements and principles of art. Pay attention to
the positive AND the negative space. Plan on working (is it really work?) 10 hours plus per week. Pace
yourself - work consistently. Don't wait until the end of July!
Look at the list of sculpture ideas below for further ideas. Your finished sculptures should be larger than
6 inches in one dimension (height, width, or depth) and be sure to have your pre-planning sketches in
your sketchbook of course! You can use whatever materials you would like- you don’t have to spend a
lot of money!
Project Ideas:
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Body extension/distortion sculpture (concepts: study the human form, expressionism, value)
Surreal sculpture (concepts: composition, dream imagery theme, expressionism)
Abstracted animal form (concepts: form, abstraction, symbolism, composition, space)
Vessel inspired by and incorporating a found object (concepts: unity, context, figure ground
Relationships)
5. Artist inspired sculpture or pot (concepts: research of a 2D artist’s work, application to 3D media, homage without plagiarism)
6. Vessel designed to hold a relic (concepts: theme, texture, context, proportion)
7. Combined organic and geometric forms (concepts: contrast, unity, variety, composition)
8. Sculptural vessels inspired by the four senses (concepts: theme, unity, variety, function)
9. A cut apart and reassembled pitcher/teapot and 3 matching cups (concepts: theme, space, unity, balance, function)
10. Form or forms built to be bound together (concepts: proportion, unity, line, texture)
11. Vessel with one or more thrown feet (concepts: balance, space, proportion)
12. Life size, nonfigurative self portrait (concepts: theme, proportion, abstraction, symbolism)
Assignment 4: Create a sculpture inspired by the work of one of the artists you create your artist pages on. (See below).
There should be an obvious visual link from your piece to the work of your chosen artist, but your piece should not be a
copy of their work!
3 Artist Pages:
Research three sculptors from the following list. Create an artist page for each of your three chosen artists. Your artist
page should include:
Name of the artist
Photo of the artist
Short bio
Information about the artist’s work
Photos of the artwork
What inspires the artist or other fun facts
Nanni Di Banco
Donatello
Andrea Del Verrocchio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Auguste Rodin
Otto Pentewa
Maria Montoya Martinez
Cliff Whiting
Akati Akpele Kendo
Osei Bonsu
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Pablo Picasso
Edgar Degas
Jacques Lipchitz
Julio Gonzalez
Aleksandr Archipenko
Umberto Boccioni
Marcel Duchamp
Man Ray
Ernst Barlach
Meret Oppenheim
Naum Gabo
Constantin Brancusi
Barbara Hepworth
Henry Moore
Vera Mukhina
Alexander Calder
Alberto Giacometti
David Smith
Donald Judd
Tony Smith
Louise Nevelson
Louise Bourgeois
Eva Hesse
Claes Oldenburg
Duane Hanson
Kiki Smith
Melvin Edwards
David Hammons
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Jeff Koons
Robert Arneson
Beverly Pepper
Deborah Butterfield
Elisabeth Catlett
Sandy Skoglund
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Nasisse
Susan Peterson
Kurt Weiser
Robert Turner
Betty Woodman
Alison Brittan
Hans Coper
Shiro Otani
Kazuhiko Rosanjin
Sketchbook Assignments:
Start thinking about themes for your concentration. Go to the AP 3D website and look at the examples listed for the
concentration section of the portfolio. I want you to have a sense of what a concentration is in the first place. You
will see great work here and hopefully be inspired. Pick one artist’s work that stands out to you. (Make sure to notice
the grade at the top. 6 is the best and 3 is passing). Do 5 sketches of their work in your sketchbook and explain, in
writing, why you think it is great. Then, start brainstorming about your own concentration. Have three possible
concentration ideas decided on by the beginning of school. For each concentration idea, sketch out preliminary ideas
for 10 possible pieces. I want to see them and will ask you for them! Here are a few ideas to get you started:
Relationships
Tools
Vanity
Nursery rhymes
Game boards
Medical instruments
Musical instruments
Fruit/vegetables
Inner workings (clock, computer)
Imaginary creatures in real settings
Action figures/dolls
Costumes
A day in the life
Sports
Traditional ideas updated
Lost & Found
Get to work! 
Religious rituals
Light
Landscapes
Under the microscope
Distortion
Uniforms
Water
Leftovers
Products (beauty, health)
Unsung heroes
Hidden lives of people
Poverty/affluence
Altered objects
Tension
Seeds
Figures of speech (ex. The ground is thirsty)