Important Information
Fall Assessments are always the three days after Fall Break
Spring Assessments are always the week before Spring Break
What are the conditions for failure of an assessment?
- A failure to sign up for the assessments within the announced sign-up period
- A failure to show up for the scheduled assessment
- Arrival to the assessment after the review has begun
- Failure to follow instructions and not including all required elements
- Unsatisfactory attitude, disposition, inability to answer questions, and shoddy craftsmanship
First Portfolio Assessment
This interview is mandatory for all freshmen and will be held yearly during spring assessment week.
A missed or failed interview prevents enrollment in art classes for the entire next year. Students must either retake the assessment the following year to re-enroll in art courses or they must change their major. Students are permitted only one failed assessment.
Freshman Scholarships are awarded based upon performance in this review.
Art History, BFA and Art Education Students
All students must complete the following:
- Present five artworks created in art classes during the freshmen year (work should represent several media). Work should be cleanly presented.
Transfer Students
Transfer students who have received transfer credit for ART 120, ART 130, ART 131 and ART 223 do not need to participate in the Freshmen Interview. All other transfer students must complete the freshmen interview the first year they declare an art major.
This interview is mandatory and will be held yearly during spring assessment week.
Second Portfolio Assessment
This portfolio review is mandatory for all sophomores and will be held yearly during spring assessment week.
The sophomore review determines the students eligibility to continue in their chosen concentration. A missed or failed assessment prevents a student continuing in their area of concentration. If they choose to remain an art major, they must declare a new concentration, and pass the second assessment again the following year. Students are permitted only one failed assessment.
Sophomore Scholarships are awarded based upon performance in this review.
BFA Students
All students must complete the following:
- Present a portfolio with a minimum of five art works.
- All work must be in their area of concentration.
- All work must have been completed during the sophomore year.
- All work must be professionally presented in mats, on the computer, in slide form, or 3D work displayed (if you have questions about this please see your instructor or advisor).
- Write a typed resume and artist statement.
Art Ed Students
Present one work from each studio class taken at Longwood University. Your art work will be presented as a power point presentation. If you are showing a three dimensional object, have more than one view of the work in the power point. You will use a mac computer and may save your power point on a cd or jump drive. Have a backup in case the first method does not work. Label your work in your power point to include title, media, dimensions, class and date. You will leave one cd with your name, student number and catalogue year written on it with permanent marker.
Art History Students
Turn in a minimum of three research papers from art history courses.
Transfer Students
Transfer students must complete the sophomore portfolio review during the year in which they begin taking classes in their chosen concentration at Long wood University.
The portfolio must consist of work completed during the current academic year.
This review is mandatory for all transfer students and will be held yearly during spring assessment week.
Junior Portfolio Assessment and Senior Project Proposal
This professional project proposal is mandatory for all juniors and transfer students who have successfully completed their first and second portfolio assessment and will be held yearly during spring assessment week.
Students should have had two years in their area of concentration before presenting this proposal.
BFA Students
All students must complete the following:
- Present at least five pieces of work in their area of concentration. All work completed during the junior year with at least one relating to the theme of the senior research project either in concept or execution.
- All work must be professionally presented in mats, on the computer, in slide form, or 3D work displayed (if you have questions about this please see your instructor or advisor).
- A type written proposal detailing the concept/theme for their senior show the written proposal should be accompanied by drawings.
Art Education Students
The junior review consists of two parts: a portfolio review and volunteering 15+ hours at the LCVA as an art advocate. Your hours should be begun before assessments and completed by the last week of classes. This is a great opportunity to understand art advocacy, a role all art teachers will fulfill. A dispositions sheet for this experience should be filled out by your supervisor at the LCVA and turned in no later than the Monday of exam week. The dispositions sheet may be downloaded from the art education blackboard site under course documents.
Schedule for LCVA Hours:
- Contact Curator of Education via email or phone
- Contact the Volunteer Coordinator
- Begin your hours at the LCVA
- Sign in and out upon arrival and departure.
- Upon completion of your hours, download the dispositions and skills form from the art education blackboard site and give it to the Curator of Education or the Volunteer Coordinator to complete. Turn this in to the office by the Monday of exam week.
Portfolio Requirements:
Create a digital portfolio of your work. Present one work from each studio class taken at Longwood University. Your art work will be presented as a power point presentation. If you are showing a three dimensional object, have more than one view of the work in the power point. You will use a mac computer and may save your power point on a cd or jump drive. Have a backup in case the first method does not work. Label your work in your power point to include title, media, dimensions, class and date. You will leave one cd with your name, student number and catalogue year written on it with permanent marker. This digital portfolio should be comprehensive in that you will add on to your second art department assessment digital portfolio.Resume and Teaching Philosophy: Include your resume and teaching philosophy on your cd and/or jump drive as a word document. This is part of your digital portfolio.
Proposal: Create a typed proposal, no more than one page, about your experience at the LCVA and your preferred art advocacy work at the LCVA your senior year. Place this on your cd as a word document. Create a schedule for working at the LCVA to include days and times. Bring any samples of work completed at the LCVA if this is applicable. For example, if you helped with the Kid’s activity room, bring in an example of your make and take or photographs of your project and/or activity room. Any images you may have should be in your digital portfolio, at the end of your presentation.
Art History Students
Students will present a project proposal for their senior presentation. The presentation will include a concise statement of the problem they wish to address, a review, current research in the area and a working bibliography.
Transfer Students
Transfer students must complete the junior portfolio review and project proposal the year before the senior group exhibit. This is mandatory for all transfer students and will be held yearly during spring assessment week.
Senior Mid-Semester Review and Senior Professional Project
Seniors must take two courses as graduation requirements. Art 461, Senior Seminar, should be taken the semester before the student's last semester at Longwood. Students enrolled in Senior Seminar will present their Junior Proposal work in progress to their faculty panel for critique and review. Students may pass, fail or get a provisional fail if more work has to be completed. Passing Art 461 is a prerequisite for taking Art 462.
Art 462, Senior Professional Project, fulfills the General Education Goal 15. Seniors enroll in Art 462 their final semester at Longwood. That semester, their final portfolio project is reviewed by their faculty panel. Students may pass, fail or get a provisional fail if more work has to be completed. Failure of Art 462 requires the student to retake the class, and resubmit their project at the next assessment.
BFA Students
All students must complete the following:
- Take senior seminar (ART 461)the semester before their final semester • Pass a mid-project assessment during the fall or spring assessment week (fall semester for spring graduation and spring semester for fall graduation)
- Take Senior Professional Project (ART 462) their final semester.
- Create 10 pieces of original artwork based on the junior year project proposal.
- All work must be professionally presented in mats, on the computer, in slide form, or 3D work displayed (if you have questions about this please see your instructor or advisor).
- Prepare a typed resume and artist statement
Art Education Students
You are to volunteer your services for 40+ hours at the LCVA in an art advocacy position determined during your third art department assessment. The fourth art department mid-term and final assessment consists of two parts: a portfolio review and volunteering 40+ hours at the LCVA as an art advocate. Your hours should be begun before assessments and completed by the last week of classes. This is a great opportunity to understand art advocacy, a roll all art teachers will fulfill. A dispositions sheet for this experience should be filled out by your supervisor at the LCVA and turned in to me no later than the Monday of exam week. The dispositions sheet may be downloaded from the art education blackboard site under course documents.
Schedule for LCVA Hours:
- Contact Curator of Education via email or phone
- Contact the Volunteer Coordinator
- Begin your hours at the LCVA
- Sign in and out upon arrival and departure.
- Upon completion of your hours, download the dispositions and skills form from the art education blackboard site and give it to the Curator of Education or the Volunteer Coordinator to complete. Turn this in to the office by the Monday of exam week.
Portfolio Requirements:
Create a digital portfolio of your work. Present one work from each studio class taken at Longwood University. Your art work will be presented as a power point presentation. If you are showing a three dimensional object, have more than one view of the work in the power point. You will use a mac computer and may save your power point on a cd or jump drive. Have a backup in case the first method does not work. Label your work in your power point to include title, media, dimensions, class and date. You will leave one cd with your name, student number and catalogue year written on it with permanent marker. This digital portfolio should be comprehensive in that you will add on to your second art department assessment digital portfolio.
Resume and Teaching Philosophy: Include your resume and teaching philosophy on your cd and/or jump drive as a word document. This is part of your digital portfolio.
Statement of Service: Create a statement describing your art advocacy to date. This should be no more than a page long and saved as a word document in your digital portfolio. You must have accompanying visuals and/or materials to enhance your presentation in your digital portfolio. These images will be at the end of your power point presentation.
Art History Students
Students will complete a thorough research paper based upon their junior year proposal. They will also write and present a ten-minute formal paper based upon their research.
Transfer Students
Transfer students must pass both the mid-program assessment and the professional project assessment.