AP Art and Design Selected Works Overview

The Selected Works section of your portfolio exam should feature five artworks that best demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas. This section is 40% of your exam score.

AP 3-D Art and Design

For AP 3-D Art and Design, you’ll submit ten digital images of five artworks (two views of each work). The second image of each work should be taken from a different vantage point than the first view, or it can be a detail, if the detail informs the evaluator about a particular aspect of the work.

AP 2-D Art and Design and AP Drawing

For AP 2-D Art and Design and AP Drawing, you’ll submit five digital images of five artworks.

For All Three Courses

• Carefully select 5 final works that best demonstrate your skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas.
• There is no preferred or unacceptable material, process, idea, style, or content.
• These works may also be submitted in your Sustained Investigation section, but they don’t have to be.
• Selected Works may be related, unrelated, or a combination of related and unrelated works.
• When you upload your images, for each work, you must identify the materials and processes used, as well as ideas that are visually evident in your work.
• Your responses to the prompts are evaluated along with the work you submit.
  • The strongest responses, based on the assessment criteria, clearly describe the materials, processes, and ideas in direct relation to the Selected Works, and include digital tools and citations when applicable.
• Although responses are not evaluated for spelling, grammar, or punctuation, you should make sure your responses are written clearly (e.g., don’t use extreme text speak or eliminate spaces between words).
• Do not use special characters or symbols, other than these acceptable symbols: , . ? ! _ - ` ~ @  # $ % ^ & * ( ) + = /\ | < > : ; ” ’ [ ] \ { } |.