Content Standard(s):
Arts Education 3) Develop new ideas through open-ended experiments, using various materials, methods and approaches in creating works of art.
Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make
Essential Questions:
EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Artistic ideas and work
Formal and conceptual vocabulary
Innovation
Investigation
Two-dimensional
Three-dimensional
Experimentation
Conservation
Craftsmanship
Linear perspective
Environmental responsibility
Prior knowledge
Museum
Gallery
Curator
Digital
Horizon Line
Brainstorming
Research Skill Examples:
Make, share and revise a list of ideas and preliminary sketches.
Use introductory skills, techniques, and elements of art to create a composition
Demonstrate drawing techniques, such as hatching, cross-hatching, shading, and stippling.
Create a group project about a current or world event.
Examine careers and identify and role - play various jobs of artists.
Research a subject or idea that has personal meaning to create a work of art.
Use the elements of visual arts to create an artwork that depicts emotions.
Use a variety of media and techniques in two and three dimensions to create imagery from experience, observation and imagination.
Demonstrate proper clean-up and/or disposal of equipment and materials.
Demonstrate art room safety and procedures.
Design an environmentally area for the school such as a library or other multi-use learning area.
Engage for the purpose of personal reflection and ongoing revision, in group critiques.
Reflect through journal writing artist intent.
Arts Education 5) Apply graphic design strategies to produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
Example: Students design and create posters or fliers to advertise a school art show or athletic activity.
Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Reflect, Refine, Continue
Essential Questions:
EU: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Artistic processes
Various approaches to art making
Artist statement
Copyright Laws
Fair Use Responsibility
Plagiarize
Reflecting
Revising
Audience and Purpose
Critique
Visual Organization
Context
Technology
Mount Skill Examples:
Demonstrate how to create a think -map to assist with creative blocks.
Discuss collaboratively various ideas and innovations that can overcome the creative block and develop ideas.
Look at examples of work by student and/artists to gain inspiration.
Develop and apply critical thinking skills to create a work of art that communicates an identified goal.
Work alone or collaboratively to design a travel poster.
Demonstrate perseverance in order to create high quality works of art.
Plan, sketch and revise in the process of creating a work of art.
Demonstrate various techniques in watercolor painting such as wet-on-wet, dry brush, wet-on-dry, and flat wash.
Examine and describe the use and misuse of the practice of appropriating copyrighted artworks and designs in their artwork.
Demonstrate care of materials, tools, and equipment when creating works of art.
Use visual organization skills to design a flyer for a community function.
Write an artist statement for a body of one's own original completed artwork.
Demonstrate visual arts vocabulary in an artist's journal when reflecting on their own processes and artwork.
Arts Education 3) Engage, experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meaning that emerge in the process of creating art.
Unpacked Content
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standards:
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make
Essential Questions:
EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
Concepts & Vocabulary:
Creative Processes
Organize and develop ideas
Traditional Media
Contemporary Media
Fair Use
Open Source
Creative Commons
Develop artistic ideas
Plagiarizing
Graffiti
Defacing
Criteria
Refine and complete artistic work
Archival
Criteria
Cultural Context
Body of Artwork
Collaborate
Medium/ Media
Genre Skill Examples:
Create a pre-drawing self-portrait at the beginning of a drawing unit and compare it to a finished self-portrait at the end of the unit.
Write a survey at the beginning of a course to communicate prior knowledge and apprehensions of creating artwork and skill levels. At the end of the course review the survey to reflect on progress.
Collaborate with other students to create a legacy project, communication-based posters or a mural.
Collaboratively or individually compare, contrast and investigate self -portraits and social media selfies.
Create an artwork that explores new techniques, with the understanding that the artwork is experimental.
After exploring Tibetan sand mandalas, write a reflection, that highlights the importance of the process over product.
Discuss, examine and describe the use and misuses of appropriating (plagiarizing) copyrighted artworks and designs.
Describe the difference between the intent of graffiti vandalism and urban street art and the effects on various communities- compare defacing with creating.
Create an artwork implementing ideas, organizational elements, foundations, skills, and techniques of visual art in a traditional and/or digital method.
Engage - for the purposes of personal reflection and on-going improvement, group critiques.
Create a rubric with teacher input to be used for evaluation purposes.
