It is not a selection of a variety of works produced as solutions to class projects, or a collection of works with differing intents. The choices of technique, medium, style, form, subject, and content are made by the student, in consultation with the teacher. Students should be encouraged to explore a personal, central interest as intensively as possible, and are free to work with any idea in any medium. However, the concentration should grow out of, and demonstrate, a plan of action or investigation in which the student has invested considerable time, effort, and thought. The investigation of a medium in and of itself, without a strong underlying visual idea, does not constitute a successful concentration.
Most concentrations involve a group of works.
Whether a concentration includes a relatively small number of works or a greater number, the works should be unified by an underlying idea that has visual coherence. If a student uses subject matter as the basis of a concentration, the work should show the development of a visual language appropriate for that subject. The list of possible concentration topics is infinite. See examples of concentrations that have been submitted by AP students in the past. Top of Page Written Commentary A written commentary explaining the development of the concentration must accompany the work in this section.