Sustained Investigation unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
Isolating a variable in 3-D
Clay: earthenware, stoneware, porcelain
Materials, processes and ideas
Material tests
Inquiry in 3-D work
The two written responses
Sustained Investigation
Firing and glaze
Armature and internal structure
Maquettes as evidence
Greenware, bisque and glaze
Appropriation in 3-D
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Slab, coil and pinch construction
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: The commonest written-response mistake
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Failure that is structural
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Documenting the same work from multiple views
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsA student proposes this inquiry for a 3-D Art and Design Sustained Investigation: "I want to make sculptures about the environment."
Explain why this proposal cannot guide a sustained investigation.
Rewrite it as a question specific to three-dimensional practice, and explain what makes it answerable through making.
Describe TWO material or structural experiments your revised question would require.
Explain how the physical behavior of a material — its failure, its weight, its response to a process — can itself be the content of a 3-D investigation.
Explain the difference between decorating a form and using form to carry an idea.
Describe one way documentation of a 3-D work must differ from documentation of a 2-D work, and why.
Explain what evidence in the images would show a reader that a structural problem was identified and solved during the investigation.