Sustained Investigation Statements: Reflection Post Due 3/7 @9pm

 1. Read your sustained investigation from December 2020 (below). 

2. Then, create a post that addresses any changes and revisions to your project direction. Clearly and simply state the central idea of your sustained investigation. (500 character maximum).

3. In your post, include images of the first 3 pieces from your Sustained Investigation Project. Explain how your work demonstrates your intent and the sustained investigation of your idea. You may refer to specific images as examples. 

4. Revisit your "AP Goals" post from September. Paste your goals into the post. Are there any goals that you identified from the fall that you would like to focus on in the remaining weeks of the school year?

AP STUDIO ART 2020/21

SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION STATEMENTS:

 

Ethan Ferreira: “I will focus on highlighting the struggles of students by portraying them as dark, creepy, or otherwise unnerving to make a statement about the education and social traditions of today.”

 

Janae Hartman: “My sustained investigation will be out of my comfort zone, containing a detailed background, simple portrait, and a message throughout the image.”

 

Savannah Lee: “The theme of my sustained investigation is the bond between a mother and her daughter.”

 

Jocelyn Zavala-Garcia: “The process of choice making in immigration and the struggles and joys of living in an unknown country once they have immigrated.”

 

Margaret Atkins: The selections focus on the motif of isolation, and will seek to produce bracing symbolic imagery of my experience of sudden isolation, tiresome monotony, followed by a gradual re-emergence back into contact with humankind.

 

Jill Bale: I am going to explore feeling emotion through abstract art.

 

Rachel Sisson: I’m going to explore people’s relationship with nature and the environment in their everyday lives.

 

Ava Passehl: “How can I show the authentic and narrative portrait of someone?

 

Marissa Quercetti: “Topic: Mental Health Disorders. Purpose: To portray effects of mental illness on a person and show how it makes them feel/impacts their daily lives

Bella Dayrit: How does color and form convey the human identity?

 

Meghan Dellose: Topic: addiction. My idea is to paint various pictures of people who struggle with all types of addiction.

 

Julianna Trusello: Through Tarot cards, I will create a timeline of important life events that 

evoke emotion and convey a specific purpose.

 

Joe Marino: Topic/Focus: Family. My idea is to paint/draw portraits of family members when they were younger, and incorporate a decade vibe into that certain piece.

Gabriella Gildea: Investigating urban / city portraits using mixed media including painting, drawing, digital art and collage.