An overview of Pre-AP and AP Art and Design will be examined and discussed. Strategies and tips for organization and implementation of the redesigned studio course will follow. Participants will engage in a series of thought-provoking brainstorming practices evoking creative responses for the Sustained Investigation. Use of the sketch/idea book will be a document used to ideate and explore the idea. The study of such will include both formalistic and intuitive structure that will include technological, photographical and by-hand processes. Participants will engage in new and innovative art-making activities and thinking strategies. Updates to the portfolio will be thoroughly discussed.

The use of technology in the AP Art and Design course will be discussed and demonstrated. The issue of teaching students’ benchmarks for “quality” in art forms will be addressed with the use of reflective, summative and oral evaluation systems. The Reading 2025 and scoring the portfolios will be reviewed and discussed, from the vantage point of a reader, through an overview of images. AP Central and other instructional resources will also be discussed and shared. Best practices will be shared between participants.

• Suggested Participant Supply List for Participants
• 1. Apron
• 2. Assortment of papers, paints, drawing mediums
• 3. Rubber gloves
• 4. Sketchbook**
• 5. Photos, references
• 6. Misc. collage supplies
• 7. Laptop computer
• 8. Favorite websites and “best practices/lesson plan to share
• 9. Any other “stuff” you want to bring!

Patricia has taught art for 50 years and Advanced Placement Studio Art for 26 years. She is a Fulbright Scholar, National Board-Certified Teacher and a NAEA Teacher of Distinction. Over her teaching career she has received the AP Outstanding Recognition Award, Teacher of the Year, finalist for Oklahoma State Teacher of the Year, Oklahoma Art Teacher of the Year, Secondary Art Teacher of the Year, Western Region Art Teacher of the Year, finalist for National Art Teacher of the Year and Disney Teacher of the Year. She has done extensive brain research with renowned author and originator of the Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner, at Harvard University. She has received over $110,000.00 in grant funding.

Patricia has been an AP Studio Art Reader for 25 years. She has conducted over 200 1 and 2-day and summer training art institutes as a consultant for the College Board for the last 21 years. She was a guest lecturer at the 2008, 2012, 2023 AP National Convention. She also taught AP Studio Art in Beijing, China as an exchange professor with the Freeman Foundation in 2011.

She is a published writer and illustrator for Christian children’s books and is currently an AP Studio Art teacher at Heritage Hall Upper School in Oklahoma City where she began and has nurtured a thriving program for the last 18 years. Patricia is also a mentor for the Master Teaching Program for the Oklahoma City Schools and Integris Health Network. Last year, she was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Project in Washington D.C. This year, she was selected as one of the 2024 Cambridge University Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women in Teaching and Education. She is currently working on her Doctoral Degree.