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AP Studio Art —
Scoring Guidelines for Section III: Breadth, Sculpture/3-D Design
(Such as sculpture, furniture, jewelry, ceramics, fashion/apparel, fiber, architecture,
installation, industrial design, and performance.)
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General Notes:
- Each score point is characterized by a variety of descriptors of work that would receive
that score. The descriptors are examples; it isn't expected that all the descriptors for a
scale point will apply to any one particular portfolio. In fact, some of the descriptors
may seem to contradict each other because the range of possibilities for work at a given
score point is so great. But the descriptors should all capture characteristics of work
that merits each score.
- Because there are only six different points on the scoring scale, each score point also
represents a band or range of accomplishment.
- There is no "preferred" (or unacceptable) content or style.
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Look for engagement with:
- Height, width, depth, and time
- Mass, volume, shape, and surface
- Interiors and exteriors
- Occupied and unoccupied space
- Form, material, and content
- Light, texture, and color
- Additive, subtractive, substitution, fabrication, and assemblage processes
6 — EXCELLENT SCULPTURE/3-D DESIGN
- Two or more excellent works that successfully address 3-D design and/or sculptural
issues.
- Resolved synthesis of form, material, and content.
- Ambitious, risk-taking, inventive.
- Sophisticated ideation.
- Technically accomplished.
- Decisions executed with authority and confidence.
- Work has “presence.”
- Demonstrated understanding of 3-D principles.
5 — STRONG SCULPTURE/3-D DESIGN
- Two or more strong works that address 3-D design and/or sculptural issues.
- Synthesis of form, material, and content, somewhat resolved.
- Addresses sophisticated and/or complex issues with some success.
- 3-D principles demonstrated clearly.
- Technically competent.
- Emerging “presence.”
4 — GOOD SCULPTURE/3-D DESIGN
- Two or more works that make a clear effort to grapple with 3-D design and/or sculptural
issues, with limited success.
- Somewhat technically competent.
- Synthesis of form and content emerging.
- Some technical aspects are handled well or some ideas are handled well, but the two
don’t necessarily mesh and work together.
3 — MODERATE SCULPTURE/3-D DESIGN
- Shows effort to engage in 3-D Design and/or sculptural issues.
- Uneven technical accomplishment.
- Ideation at simple or obvious level.
- More accomplished technically than conceptually.
- More accomplished conceptually than technically.
- More conceptually challenging than a 2, but technically unresolved.
2 — WEAK SCULPTURE/3-D DESIGN
- Little engagement with 3-D design and/or sculptural issues.
- Attempts to deal with ideas or technical problems are not realized.
- Technical aspects are weak.
- Solutions to problems tend to be simplistic.
- Sense of exploration of the medium is missing.
1 — POOR SCULPTURE/3-D DESIGN
- Inadequate amount of work to make evaluation.
- Poor slides; unable to discern object(s).
- Clumsy and/or incompetent technique.
- Solutions tend to be trite.
- Little, if any, evidence of thinking.
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