Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
Skills 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.
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
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
