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final portfolio project

Project Requirements

  • All Artwork is original and unique to you.​

  • Portfolio Includes:

    • Documentation of 4 Final Projects 

    • Documentation of each project process​

    • Artist statement 

Project Resources
Project Overview

Directions: Watch the video below to get an overview of what you will create for your final portfolio.

Directions

1. Build Your Slideshow
2. Edit your Slideshow

  • Open your “Art Folder” in Google Drive and create a NEW Google Slideshow.

  • Title the slideshow “Art Portfolio”, then add YOUR NAME and the Year below it.

  • Get out ALL of the projects from your time in Art.

  • Build your Portfolio:

    • One artwork per slide

    • Take a GOOD photo of each artwork 

    • For Each Artwork Add Text:

      • Your first and last name

      • Title of the artwork

      • Material that you used

    • On the last slide complete an artist statement for your body of work. 

Image Check:

  • Do all images take up as much of the slide space as possible?

  • Are all the images cropped

  • Are all images square and un-warped?

  • Are all of your pictures "good" (no fingers, clear, nothing in the background, good lighting)?

  • Is your text easy to read?

  • Does the background on each slide enhance the image?

  • Do each of your photos have a boarder around them?

  • Is your spelling and grammar correct?

3. Complete an Artist Statement

Example:

In the beginning when I was 7 years old I never drew, it was hard for me to look at
the photo and draw it. I mostly give up at times when drawing gets to hard for me and when it really doesn’t look like what I wanted. I wasn’t happy about it so I tried learning about types of art on youtube or on the web. I tried doing all the tutorials but it ended badly. I just didn’t understand how, I was just so confused to learn. But when time passed I set a goal for myself that I will get better at drawing or other kinds of art that I will like or hate. Days later I learned how to draw but only cartoons and animals which are not realistic, only cartoonish. When I went to middle school, one of my electives was art. In class from first to second quarter I learned a lot of techniques from Ms. Pfister and I gathered all my learning into every piece of art I made and it was easy for me to do art now and draw some of the photos that I liked. It made me so happy that I came so far today but I am still learning. Even though I faced a lot of challenges, I gave all my effort and it paid off. Including you that you shouldn’t ever give up when you're facing challenges. You should just try and see, even though when you're making a mistake you can learn from it.

Write an artist statement that covers your body of work using google docs, google slides, or handwrite your statement with your best handwriting on lined piece of paper.

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Questions to help you write your statement:

  • Are there any themes in your work?

  • What materials do you like to use best?

  • What is your art about?

  • Does anything about your life inspire what you make art about?

  • What topic were you trying to tackle?

  • What ideas did you explore?

  • Who inspired you? What artists do you look up to?

  • What do you see in your art?

  • What are you goals as an artist?

Artist Statement Requirements:

  1. Statement must reflect an understanding of what an artist statement is. Watch "How to Write an Artist Statement" video for more information.

  2. Statement must use complete sentences and have no spelling/grammatical errors

  3. Must be 4-5 sentences long.

  4. You must proofread your work by reading it out loud to yourself.

  5. Ask one other person besides Ms. P to proofread your work.

Directions

  • Use the Artist Statement Flow Chart to help guide you in writing your artist statement.

  • Open a new Google Doc 

  • Write until you have at least 4 sentences.

  • Proof Read your work.

  • Ask someone else to proofread your work.

  • When you are done, copy and paste it onto the last slide in your Artist Portfolio.

4. Submit your Portfolio

​First, prepare your Google Slideshow to be submitted by turning it into a Video or PDF. Here's how:

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  • Follow the directions at this link to make your portfolio a video and save it on your chromebook.

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OR

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  • Download your Google Slideshow as a PDF by following the directions at this link.

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Then, you will upload your Final Portfolio in Canvas. To do this follow these directions:

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  1. Log into Canvas

  2. Click on your Art Class

  3. Click on Assignments

  4. Click on the Final Art Portfolio Assignment

  5. In the top right corner, click the blue Submit Assignment button.

  6. Drag and drop your video or PDF into the assignment submission box. 

  7. Click Submit.

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