Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.8.9

Working in a group, discuss why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?

Skills Examples

  • Answer from observation, questions that address the interpretation of a collection of artwork, such as: How are these pieces related? How are they different? Does each piece address a similar theme or idea?
  • Select an artwork of one's own to be critiqued by peers.
  • Participate in critiques individually or in a group.
  • Create (with the assistance of the teacher/ peers) an appropriate rubric for evaluating and selecting artworks for display in a particular setting.
  • Work alone or in collaboration with others to plan and create visual artworks in a variety of media that communicate particular ideas.
  • Select artworks for an exhibit or display.
  • Use digital media to locate and research art exhibits that represent ideas, beliefs and experiences of a historical or political nature.
  • State the purpose and/or use for various qualities of paper, what it is used for, and why a higher quality (archival) paper is used for the final version of an artwork.
  • View works on display in a museum. View works of art on display in a museum either in person or electronically. Write about what was seen, noting what stood out about the presentation of the works.
  • Select and mount one's own work for display.

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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
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