Semester Final Portfolio

Lately I've had a number of inquiries regarding the semester portfolio, perhaps because the semester is coming to an end in a few weeks. So this seems a good time to post something about it.

If you look at the syllabus, there is a breakdown on the 3rd page for Assessment, which covers how the grades are calculated.  There are three individually graded items (2D,3D, and Museum assignment), and everything else we do is part of the semester portfolio. This is worth 25% of your semester grade.  These are all the things we do in the classroom, the art exercises, usually done in the 18"x24" pad.  The last few months you have had to do them at home.  It's pretty much a completion grade- you complete the assignments and you get all the points.  Normally on the last meeting day, after we have all looked at the 3D final projects, I quickly look through all the big pads, and use a check sheet to see what people have done.  If all the items are complete, that student gets an A for the semester portfolio.  If some items are missing or incomplete, the final grade for this item is lower, based on a system I have.  In either case, it is calculated into the final class grade that I have to submit through KeanWise a few days after the semester ends.

Unfortunately, this year we can't have a final meeting in the classroom, so you will have to send me images of what you have done through the email system.  Some of you have been doing this all along, and if so, I have my check sheet and mark them down.  Some of you have sent me your comic strips that way.  I don't know if there is a limit to how many items can be attached- if so you may have to do it in batches.  No problem- that's why I have the check sheet.  Once I have things written down, I send acknowledgement, so you know and you don't have to send them again.  Excused absences cover penalties for missed classes, but all portfolio exercises have to be made up and completed, whether the absence is excused or not. 

The good news is that everything this class does is kept on this blog, so week by week there is a record of what the class is doing. Early in the semester when we were meeting in the classroom, if you did the work in class, then the exercise is complete.  I still want to see it again in May so I can give you a grade, but you at least have it done.   Work done since we switched to distance learning will have to be sent digitally.  If you are not sure what any of this is, it's all on this blog, but here I will provide a list of dates we did these exercises.  The last several postings are on the home page, and after that, everything can be found by clicking on "older posts" or going into the archive function, which covers everything going back to 2007.  This is not an ideal system; I much prefer to see art in person and judge it that way, but this is what the pandemic circumstances requires.  

Jan 31- Contour line (exterior, cross, blind).  The shoe drawings, 4 varieties.
Feb 7-  Scale, Proportion, and negative space (the chair, and the bottles, two exercises)  
Feb 14-  Value drawing.  Charcoal drawings of white painted objects
Feb 21-  Monumental art (mosaic collage with magazine paper)
Feb 28-  Basic color theory (the color wheel and the complement color mix, two exercises)
March 6- Photography- take home assignment
April 3-  Rhythm- abstract art influenced by musical rhythms, four paintings.
April 17-  Mixed media collage- adapting a randomly generated phrase through use of collage, drawing, painting
Apr 24-  Perspective in drawing- a 2 point perspective drawing of the corner of a room

That is the whole portfolio.  Details about each exercise can be found on the blog under the above dates for each, and if you have further questions, you can email me.  To count, I must see the work by midnight on May 8, 2020, our last class meeting. None of these items are individually graded, so if they are all done, you get an A for the portfolio.