SUBMITTING ARTWORK
AP Art and Design Portfolio Exams (AP 2-D Art and Design, AP 3-D Art and Design, and AP Drawing) are administered through the AP Art and Design digital submission web application. AP coordinators, AP Art and Design teachers, and students use this web application to submit portfolios to the AP Program.
You’ll upload images of your artworks, enter typed responses to prompts, and send your portfolio to your teacher for review, all in the web application. (For AP 2-D Art and Design and AP Drawing, you’ll also work with your AP teacher and/or AP coordinator to mail physical artworks to the AP Program separately.)
The AP Art and Design digital submission web application becomes available in November each year. We recommend you start uploading images as soon as you can, so both you and your teacher can monitor the development of your portfolio.
Instructions
Step by Step
Submit Work in the AP Art and Design Digital Portfolio
You’ll upload images of your artworks, enter typed responses to prompts, and send your portfolio to your teacher for review, all in the web application. (For AP 2-D Art and Design and AP Drawing, you’ll also work with your AP teacher and/or AP coordinator to mail physical artworks to the AP Program separately.)
The AP Art and Design digital submission web application becomes available in November each year. We recommend you start uploading images as soon as you can, so both you and your teacher can monitor the development of your portfolio.
Instructions
- Make sure you have your school code, teacher key, and AP ID.
- Get familiar with the portfolio requirements and submission process.
- Sign in to the web application.
- Set up your access to the web application.
- Access your portfolio.
- Upload images of your artwork.
- Add your written evidence for the Sustained Investigation section.
- Complete the Selected Works section.
- Know the deadline for sending your final portfolio to your teacher.
- Do a final review of your portfolio.
- Forward your portfolio to your teacher.
Step by Step
Submit Work in the AP Art and Design Digital Portfolio
PHOTOGRAPHING ARTWORK
Photographing Artwork
It is essential for students to understand the significance of image quality when they create and select digital images to submit for their AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam. Images that are unclear, out of focus, lacking in contrast and detail, distorted, too light or dark, incomplete, ambiguous, and/or include distracting backgrounds do not support success with the AP Art and Design Portfolio Exams.
When photographing work and documenting process for their portfolio, students should capture the highest- quality images possible. They can use software of their choice to edit images, saving both high-resolution image files and image files that meet AP Art and Design digital submission specifications. Students should be encouraged to complete their edits in the high-resolution file and then save a file that meets submission specifications. Images should be stored in more than one location in case of technical difficulties.
Image specifications for the AP Art and Design digital submission web application can be found at apstudent.org/art-and-design-digital-submission.
Multiple Submissions and Resubmission of AP Portfolio Exams
Students may want to submit more than one portfolio type in the same year. It is up to the teacher to help students decide whether they will have sufficient work for more than one complete portfolio or whether they might be better served to concentrate on a single portfolio. When a student submits more than one portfolio, the AP Coordinator must fill out an Irregularity Report.
No work may be duplicated between portfolios if a student submits more than one. Using the same work, or part of the same work, is not allowed. Each portfolio must consist entirely of work that was not submitted in any other AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam.
Students may submit the same type of portfolio
in two different years. Most often this is done with
the intention of raising the score of the portfolio
that was originally submitted. Work included in the resubmission must be completely different than the originally submitted work. As stated earlier, each
AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam a student submits must consist entirely of work that was not submitted in previous portfolios.
It is essential for students to understand the significance of image quality when they create and select digital images to submit for their AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam. Images that are unclear, out of focus, lacking in contrast and detail, distorted, too light or dark, incomplete, ambiguous, and/or include distracting backgrounds do not support success with the AP Art and Design Portfolio Exams.
When photographing work and documenting process for their portfolio, students should capture the highest- quality images possible. They can use software of their choice to edit images, saving both high-resolution image files and image files that meet AP Art and Design digital submission specifications. Students should be encouraged to complete their edits in the high-resolution file and then save a file that meets submission specifications. Images should be stored in more than one location in case of technical difficulties.
Image specifications for the AP Art and Design digital submission web application can be found at apstudent.org/art-and-design-digital-submission.
Multiple Submissions and Resubmission of AP Portfolio Exams
Students may want to submit more than one portfolio type in the same year. It is up to the teacher to help students decide whether they will have sufficient work for more than one complete portfolio or whether they might be better served to concentrate on a single portfolio. When a student submits more than one portfolio, the AP Coordinator must fill out an Irregularity Report.
No work may be duplicated between portfolios if a student submits more than one. Using the same work, or part of the same work, is not allowed. Each portfolio must consist entirely of work that was not submitted in any other AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam.
Students may submit the same type of portfolio
in two different years. Most often this is done with
the intention of raising the score of the portfolio
that was originally submitted. Work included in the resubmission must be completely different than the originally submitted work. As stated earlier, each
AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam a student submits must consist entirely of work that was not submitted in previous portfolios.
Technical Requirements
You and your teacher must have access to a digital camera and a computer with an internet connection to submit the digital sections of your portfolio.
If you will be accessing the web application from a computer outside your school, see the list of required web browsers. You aren't restricted to specific hardware configurations, though you may experience slower response times when using older computers.
Required Web Browser
Use one of the following browsers:
All images must be submitted in JPEG format (file name extension .jpg) and RGB color mode. We recommend that you keep copies of your original images.
Recommended Image Sizes
The image sizes below are recommendations. Your image sizes may be different.
Landscape orientation (h x w):
Based on the maximum file size of 3 MB, you’ll need a maximum of 114 MB of free disk space.
If you will be accessing the web application from a computer outside your school, see the list of required web browsers. You aren't restricted to specific hardware configurations, though you may experience slower response times when using older computers.
Required Web Browser
Use one of the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer v. 11
- Firefox v. 41
- Google Chrome v. 45
- Safari 8 or below
All images must be submitted in JPEG format (file name extension .jpg) and RGB color mode. We recommend that you keep copies of your original images.
Recommended Image Sizes
The image sizes below are recommendations. Your image sizes may be different.
Landscape orientation (h x w):
- Maximum size: 530 x 780 pixels (7.36 x 10.83 inches or 18.69 x 27.51 cm)
- Minimum size: 480 x 480 pixels (6.67 x 6.67 inches or 16.94 x 16.94 cm)
- Maximum size: 780 x 530 pixels (10.83 x 7.36 inches or 27.51 x 18.69 cm)
- Minimum size: 480 x 480 pixels (6.67 x 6.67 inches or 16.94 x 16.94 cm)
- Maximum size: 642 x 642 pixels (8.91 x 8.91 inches or 22.64 x 22.64 cm)
Based on the maximum file size of 3 MB, you’ll need a maximum of 114 MB of free disk space.
DESIGN POLICIES
Follow these guidelines as you build and submit your portfolio:
It’s unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law to copy a work of art (even in another medium) that was made by someone else and represent it as your own.
- See the detailed instructions for your portfolio type listed in the current AP Art and Design Course and Exam Description. If you don’t follow the instructions, your score report will have a message saying that your score is based on an incomplete or otherwise irregular portfolio.
- Your portfolio may include work you’ve done during this school year or previously, in class or out of class.
- All work in your portfolio must be work created only by you; collaborative works or group projects may not be submitted.
- If you submit work that makes use of photographs, published images, and/or other artists’ works, you must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This may be demonstrated through manipulation of the formal qualities, design, and/or concept of the original work.
- Submit digital images for the sections that require them. Physical work sent for these sections won’t be evaluated.
- Each portfolio exam must be unique; do not submit the same work (or details of the work) in more than one portfolio exam.
- Label all images, including dimensions and media. (If you want to include a title or other text, add it after the media.)
It’s unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law to copy a work of art (even in another medium) that was made by someone else and represent it as your own.
Ethics, Artistic Integrity, and Plagiarism
Although the use of appropriated images is common in the art and design world today, AP Art and Design students who use images made by others as a basis for AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam work must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. Ethics, Artistic Integrity, and Plagiarism
Any work that makes use of (appropriates) photographs, published images, and/or the work of someone else must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This is demonstrated through manipulation of the materials, processes, and/or ideas of the source. The student’s individual vision should be clearly evident. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law simply to copy someone else’s work or imagery (even in another medium) and represent it as one’s own.
Teachers and their students are strongly encouraged to become knowledgeable about copyright laws and to maintain reference citations for all resources used to develop student work. Teachers are expected to monitor students’ use of resources and to ensure that students understand and demonstrate integrity in making art and design. Students are encouraged to create works based on their own experiences, knowledge, and interests. Universities, colleges, and art schools have rigorous policies regarding plagiarism.
Digital images of student work may be edited. However, the goals of image editing should be to present the clearest, most accurate representation of the student’s work and to ensure that images meet the requirements of the digital submission web application. When submitting their portfolios, students must attest: “I hereby affirm that all works in this portfolio were done by me and that these images accurately represent my actual work.”
The College Board reserves the right to decline to score an AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam or cancel an AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam when misconduct occurs, such as copying another artist’s work.
Any work that makes use of (appropriates) photographs, published images, and/or the work of someone else must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This is demonstrated through manipulation of the materials, processes, and/or ideas of the source. The student’s individual vision should be clearly evident. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law simply to copy someone else’s work or imagery (even in another medium) and represent it as one’s own.
Teachers and their students are strongly encouraged to become knowledgeable about copyright laws and to maintain reference citations for all resources used to develop student work. Teachers are expected to monitor students’ use of resources and to ensure that students understand and demonstrate integrity in making art and design. Students are encouraged to create works based on their own experiences, knowledge, and interests. Universities, colleges, and art schools have rigorous policies regarding plagiarism.
Digital images of student work may be edited. However, the goals of image editing should be to present the clearest, most accurate representation of the student’s work and to ensure that images meet the requirements of the digital submission web application. When submitting their portfolios, students must attest: “I hereby affirm that all works in this portfolio were done by me and that these images accurately represent my actual work.”
The College Board reserves the right to decline to score an AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam or cancel an AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam when misconduct occurs, such as copying another artist’s work.
